Quick general question about wiring.
 

I had a great idea that us guys always have. I took a motor off of an old dishwasher and am going to mount it to a bike. It will be powered by a car battery. Its got red, blue, white and black wires. I would assume red is + black is -. But when I hook it up to a source (car battery) all it does is spark on the terminals.Whats the blue and white do?

Umm, I think black is ground. As for the others, I don't have a clue. If you still have the manual it might mention it in there. Otherwise google muight be useful...:shrug:

Durrr. Its hard to run 110V motor on 12V.

It's probably a DC motor anyway, so I wouldnt hook up 110V to it..... BIIIIG Difference between AC & DC.. More than likely, there is some circuitry that steps the voltage down to a certain value for the motor. Check the manual, or just run a search online for the part number and the motor serial number.


And also, the 4 leads are probably for a remote turn on, positive voltage and ground, and also a sensor to monitor the speed.

what.. .the...

jsut make sure you get teh wires on there right or you will gt a visit from teh magic smoke. whne you see the magic smoke electricity no makes things move anymore :)

later
tim

Im quite the frequent witness of magic smoke. From the 4 prt printer switch box exploding in my face, to the puffs that came out of my monitor a few weeks ago.

Damnded magic smoke :owned: me!!!!

Yeah. it was also the wrong current. I actually had about 5 batteres dasychained up before I realized this.