There are a lot of fun projects you can do with stepper motors salvaged from old printers or disk drives. However, it isn’t always clear how to connect to some strange motor with no markings or ...

Motors can be wired delta or wye. Which arrangement do you choose, and how do you do it? For purposes of making the connection, it doesn’t matter to the installer if the motor is delta-wound or ...

I have a 1965 Mustang fastback with a 289, Edelbrock Performer intake, a Holley four-barrel carb, and a mild cam. I want to run a one-wire alternator, but my friend says they don’t charge at low rpm.

Bob and Tim are at a job where a technician from another company could not figure out the electrical, so he just put the panel back on the electrical compartment and left the job. It is a heat pump ...

It’s often been said that motors are the backbone of industry. So much of our production equipment is motor-driven that it would be hard to argue against this. It would also be difficult to dispute ...

In this article, I’ll dig into a couple of things you need to know when it comes to using salvaged hard disc drive spindle motors. Most electronics hobbyists think that such hard disc drive spindle ...