Hard Drive Motor

[ingmar602]

it fould fly with 240 volts



[w1ngsfly]

@ingmar602 It wouldn't as a matter of fact. For every motor (as with every transformer) there is a point of diminishing returns as the core saturates and you can't develop any more magnetic field strength without extreme increases in electromotive force. After this point the motor or transformer simply burn up.

[ghoblin1284]

what is the green cable used to do



[Soimtruefan]

Point of this video is to show people that it IS possible to use a hard drive as a speaker.. We all already know we can get a speaker for atleast 20 bucks, why buy a speaker when you can make one out of trash laying around the house?

[talkpremjit]

You must be an electronics engineer ...... nice work by the way.. keep it up.

[w1ngsfly]

@talkpremjit Not a bonafide engineer but a self trained thing of the same sort :)



[harunlisiclisko]

but how much cost controller

[thefuckingwein]

ach wie geil so ne art ufo....

[baloneyjazz]

sure is quiet

[SuperDisco91]

You must of just finished it. You left your soldering iron on.

[DOMINATORKING1]

hi dude when i was litlle i bring school motors to play its so was fun

i remember u likes motor me too :)

[w1ngsfly]

I don't know what current I was running it at. Probably an amp or two.

[MrMandy426]

up to 18 volts but how many amps or even milliamps

[hannobisschoff1]

nice vid man, but time to clean up the desk maybe?

[MotoHarmer]

Nevermind 8 Volts, Wire 240 Volts to that Bitch

[loonwerker]

@MotoHarmer bitches love 240 Volts

[linuxlove4004]

oh wow, a Heathkit

[LosHihhuli]

Need to turn off my computer, i want one! cya! :D

[futabadell]

Overclock baby!!!

[alain026]

sounds like a f*ing jet haha

[dontflarteryourself]

13 people have no idea what he is talking about.

[tokejyn]

there's a trick to making simple controllers for these motors using adder chips...

personally I use the 74164, a later 7400 series chip, and some decent transistors.

[00101110o]

that would have been pretty bad had it fallen or you had to catch it.

[SuperIbra100]

lieg hard

[DjViOd]

ur desk looks exactly like mine :D

[w1ngsfly]

There's a link to my website on the page for this video. I have explanations for my circuitry which operates the motor and the schematics. It is fairly complex if you're unfamiliar but certainly not beyond figuring out.

[jnwpse]

How exactly did you get that thing to spin. Do you have a schematic or something for the connections I should make?

[ThePauloh9]

como voce o tirou?

[w1ngsfly]

For this style of motor a controller is necessary.

[JeremyB796]

could i hook a 9 volt to one or do i need to have a driver?

[driftx2]

why don't you test the torque when it is at 18 V? just kidding lol! nice project

[xit3ru]

watch your fingers dude!

[Serpico261]

cool video dude!! 

[xXrobodudeXx]

touch a strake any were match on that

[w1ngsfly]

Older drives had the motors fitted with bolts; these days the motor is normally integral to the body of the drive and cannot be separated from it.

[cr1901]

My question is: How'd you get the motor out of the hard drive?

[drmurda]

its ALIVE!!!

[w1ngsfly]

This "compasitor" you mention doesn't appear in any of my electronics texts. You may be referring to a capacitor but that can't produce AC on its own as it's not an active component. Somewhere you need gain and somewhere else you need feedback if you want oscillation!

[silverpizza100]

Great , now where is my electric car? Ya think you know so much because you discover 1 thing. Do something useful and quit bull shitting around/ You could say the same about helicopter's that is why they have a tail rotor. Seriously, not too swift.

PS You can put a compasitor on the 9v and change the current to AC. WOW HIRE ME NASA< lmao,

[w1ngsfly]

The motor will spin until the poles align and stay put. Hysteresis motors do not work on continuous DC; hence the controller board.

[w1ngsfly]

Try connecting a 9V battery to such a motor and tell me what happens. :)

[emilen2]

@w1ngsfly What happens is ½ the rpms of what you see here... he says it's going at 18V...

[football72linemen]

@w1ngsfly it twitches and then locks up on both the 5v and the 12v pins

[lenoat702]

why dident you put the moter on a 9v battery and let it run what is the point of the circut board

[marvindingdong]

he do you mean 2,5zoll laptop hdd´s can be also so fast ??

[GameAce6]

Dude, you GOTTA put a propeller on it and see if it'll fly!

[DragonFlyback256]

Haha, very cool gyro wobbling!

[fronkenpoop]

I'm surprised it didn't burn out.

[w1ngsfly]

To me they are easy.

[shigalbigal]

I love how you're all like "the schematics blah blah blah" like they're something easy lol 

[joshuafarren]

@grandtheftauto1233 i will soon

[w1ngsfly]

To operate in the opposite direction simply reverse two of the three wires; any two will do.

[2DAREPUBLICAMEXICANA]

how can i make it turn the other way. thanks

[lexichronicle2]

tesla turbine. precision lapping tool (the surface of the drives is extremely flat, add some micronic abrasive for lapping / polishing). stick it on a tiny aeroplane and you've got a high performance fan... and thus onwards...

[lexichronicle2]

get an RPM on that bitch! If it's doing 5krpm at 5V and it's linear up, 15-20krpm? There's a fair bit of noise on these motors considering what they're doing. Noise means vibration, which means mechanical unbalance.

But applications... hmmm... a free Dremel style high speed, low toque drill? Milling PCBs? A free centrifuge? Audio spectrum strobe? Both the latter two would benefit from the hall sensor feedback for known RPMS. Spark gap with digital sync for teslas?

[w1ngsfly]

We'd have it no other way!

[deaftodd]

ive noticed people who works with electronics often have really messy workplasce ;p

[fungabunga]

@deaftodd why a person has such a messy workspace because they like to keep all of there eqipment in one spot

[lwcollins]

@fungabunga this is very true 

[lwcollins]

@fungabunga this is very true

[w1ngsfly]

Almost all IDE drives use a three-phase controller. If you were to look inside their controller chips they're even more complex than what I've done.

[McGuywer]

This looks rather complicated. I have a motor from an old Maxtor HDD, production date 1991. It requires only 2 mosfets and can be driven from a single pin of the microcontroller. (obviously one of the mosfets input is inverted by a little transistor)

[GarrettBMXes]

It's designed for 12 volts, not 5.

[q009q009]

now you got the REAL nail-file

[jack6769]

use it as a beyblade !!

[opedroefeio]

@jack6769 you ll be the kid with the fastest hard drive, i mean, beyblade in your school , just had some blades between the platters and your done!

[jack6769]

@opedroefeio thats a good idea ^^ but i'm to old for that , o but if all ppl gona play it then i'm in

[theringfilm1]

TOUCH IT!!!!!!

[RobMonty248]

Electro magnets forgive me asking this, are powered and become more powerful with electricity (*i beleive?) anyhow.. The spinning could be set up to charge the vortex ring of magnets making them electromagents and create a faster vortex vacuum to help life this little model? I am almost done with my magnetic motor version they explain in the link i put in my 1st post. Let me know if this helps. I want to set up something like yo uhave to test also now that ive seen this, love it!

[RobMonty248]

Spacecraft (*opinion) use this same type of thing.. Except, did you see at first when the bottom ring almost spins.... If you set this up so the larger outer ring spins, I bet it will lift off the ground itself under a vortex magnetic motor shown here...

watch?v=hkgyY47duCM

This this whole system also was sitting with in the vortex motor, this may help it to stay afloat is my idea.

Rig something so the outer ring spins at high speed and the center does not spin. =-)

[IllegalMavamaarten]

Now let's have some fun *hehe* xD

[cheetawolf]

at 10 volts, it sounds like a 2T22 siren. :P

[schmidtbag]

you should try finding how many RPMs that is

[philippineagles]

wow you are close to ufo propulsion

[paintballforever24]

haha nerd

[NamelessNLS]

giro :D:D

[w1ngsfly]

I've posted links on the video and video description to my website which presents the schematic.

[AlexandruBogdan81]

yea help us whit some schematic, electronics parts for the motor driver... please email

[w1ngsfly]

If you connect wires to a 9V battery the motor will spin to a particular position and stop there. The motor needs its windings excited in in sequence over time to make it turn.

[stdavross666]

@w1ngsfly good explanation thanks

[ryfin2000]

can't just run the wires to a 9v battery?

[backinthehole]

It would have been better if you had sliced your hand open with the running motor. Fuck dude, wear some gloves.

[premiumcard]

hey

I'm 17 years old, and' n electronicer. My work boss gives me the the same work, but now i have to create the schematic and build up to the digital experemental board.

Now my question to you, do you have any schematic for this circuit?

greez

[manoftnuva]

Good video! THX ! I've been watching it with guard-glasses =) HD devices are so balanced...

[sunnyintel]

must have schmatic...

[killersushi99]

Radio Shack Customer of the year!!

[lamphrang]

superb, although it would have been better if you would have shown the circuit diagram

[sunnyintel]

@lamphrang i no. he should have shown me the diagram. i just drilled one out of a dead HDD

[theringfilm1]

hahah do 30 v then touch it!!

[Fujikaks]

So that's the gyro effect?

[MathiiXVII]

ordena la caga q teni hay weon! xD

[sami0015ROCKS]

attach that moter to a buch of hellycopter blades attach that to a box and BAM make shift hellycopter.

[jayanthyk]

can you please post the circuit?????

[moreczbogdan]

i would be interested by the circuit too. where can i get it ??

[jayanthyk]

i could'nt get the circuit shown in the video but managed to get one in a blog.type d followin in the google search and goto the first link......

" how to walz a hard drive"

[FinestPrism]

OMG awsome

[druidkg]

good motor

[seim0o]

What kind of motor is build in hard drives? three-phase current? With direct current it just jumps to a fixed position.

[kentucky9412]

Can you post the circuit, please?

[mariuirtiek]

pls schemes :)

[hjones1]

Can I use it to shave with?

[SeanBondWBB]

yep, do it everyday. gives me a great shave

THE BEST A MAN CAN GET, SEGATE

[adriansi1111]

This sounds really amazing!

I currently have a HDD motor with 3 pins, my question is: If I power it with a three-phase generator, will it spin? In that case, how can I build this generator in a simple way?

[Crio2c5]

on 18 volts it soundlike a jet engine...

[MrAnkitmerchant]

whats the rpm of the motor? from where did u get it?

[Scofield1708]

Yeah how fast was the hard drive it came from? Is it a 5400RPM? or a 7200?

[jojoviudez]

Do you think these motors can go in a remote control plane? less the bulky board hehehe, but do you think its possible? Or you have other plans/applications for this?

[neanding]

Excellent! You could show circuit diagrams for me to go take some of those engines. thanks

[PennyRoyaleTea]

Can someone point me into the right direction on how any of this stuff would make sense, and what to do with it when it does? I'm looking at the description & video & have no idea what it means.

[halimvedat]

can i take scheme ?

[Sauber9]

Does anybody here know how much energy a hard drive engine consumes?

[TheGeek1028]

Depends on how much voltage you are running it at.

[MrAnilsuthar]

Its very good!!!!!!!Can you send me the whole circuit diagram to run a segate 3 wire hard disk motor (resistance between each pair is around 5.8 ohms).

I will be very thankfull to you.

[kkiselgof]

o the things you could do with that

[ScienceOfThePS3]

Heh, it's a Dremel tool!

[undeniablynerdy]

MOAR SPEEEEED!!! ;D

[grandtheftauto1233]

dude... you should make a tut on how o remove these things from HDDs... i got like 14 dead HDDs laying around... maybe i can run a car off all the moters lol jk

[S00rabh]

@grandtheftauto1233

You sell them..??

[grandtheftauto1233]

@S00rabh actrually i sold them all already, easy 50$

[maxspeed3006]

Enter your text here.  xD

[conman33311]

hook it with a propeller then on a plane O.o

[KeyBladeGriever91]

WTF it is a jet !!!!!! XDDDDDDDD

[solorstars]

put a saw blade on it lol

[dksrival15]

can be used as a power tool

[hotrodking]

not enough torque to use as a power tool. would be better as a fan or propeller. its still, if fitted with the right blades, could cut a finger off.  so be careful kids!

[clubpenguin1help]

A finger cutting super fast spinning fan?

I like it >:)

[clubpenguin1help]

Wow that's amazing!

[zggtf211]

How about a link to your schematic so other people could make it? I am working on a bedini motor and would like to see if i could get some more power out of it by sending power to the motor.

[w1ngsfly]

Certainly with platters can be done. I'm not set up to put this together with platters right now; but maybe at some point in the future I will.

[Messerschmitt262a2a]

could you do the same but with the platters?

[cristian3131]

I have given the life of me to spin one of those, but none of the fucking drivers works, though I followed the diagram exactly. What ICs are you using ? A schematic for it?

[NetPatriot]

enough of those and one day you can fly :D

[TheGeek1028]

Wonder how fast the seek times would be if you put that in an actual hard drive.

[intheshitter]

I guess that could be a way to "overclock" the hdd

[lollypopdude]

Hm, would it hurt if you touch it while it is spinning?

[TheGeek1028]

Depends where you touch it.

[naxps]

Thats what she said.

[TheGeek1028]

What are you, 12?

[naxps]

14. but what does it matter? you're a douche. no one likes a douche.

[TheGeek1028]

WTF?

[legomaniacman]

Wow you can make a mini UFO with the gyro effects

[intheshitter]

I have a dead 1tb hdd but for some reason i cannot remove the motor from the casing. Any tips?

[saleall]

hammer ;)

[naxps]

Torx.

[pikachuthesquirtle]

make it into a fan... good for summer :)

[Killerme460]

that looked like it was nearly floating because of its inersha, oner if you could syncronise a few to gether to get to levitate

[alertmenow]

It would be great if you could share the schematic with us.. I have a bunch of old drives too for trying out a few projects in mind.

[Micah461]

Can you post the schematic? I'm trying to turn a bunch of old hard drives into gyros.

Thanks!

[desinfector]

put the platters back.

that will be a gyro-effect!!!

[TylerReifenberger5]

COOL

[w1ngsfly]

I think it was a Hitachi or a Seagate.

[Messerschmitt262a2a]

quantum bigfoot motor?

[weinerschnitzelboy]

try doing this to an actually hard drive in a computer!

a 1000000000 rpm hard drive

[w1ngsfly]

It's a matter of power input, not voltage of supply. If it were operated continuously, it would have melted, but I only operated it for about a minute at a time.

[fallingwater]

You've given 18V to a 5V motor, would this not make it release its magic smoke very quickly indeed?

[AMDkicksass]

not realy ive put 24 volts into a 7.5 volt rc car motor got warm but no smoke and it was running for a good hour

[w1ngsfly]

This is one of the simplest ways to properly drive one of these. You could use mechanical contacts, but that wouldn't all work out too well.

[fdoca]

Can this old HD motor can be a good generator if put a pully on it? Thanks

[zernestro]

@fdoca very little power. size and/or complexity=power in ele

[Aleksa809]

is there a simpler way to drive this kind of motor?

[ffsallnamestaken]

god i wish they just used a simple + and -

[Anthony96922]

Hey put 500v on the motor and attach a blade and see it. there you made a saw.

[w1ngsfly]

Sorry but I do not have time to help you with this.

[fdoca]

hello w1ngsfly , Is possible use this or other HDD motor to convert to a imhotep or bedini motor?

Can you build one? I will provide 2 good HDD motors, with 80% to 100 % parts and work out a deal with you, Thank You

[w1ngsfly]

Probably from an old Seagate or Hitachi drive. It was 5-1/4" half height I think.

[fdoca]

Hi, which hard drive this motor came from? Thanks

[w1ngsfly]

I've read on wikipedia that a 52x drive pushes just over 10k RPM. This motor in the video of mine was doing about 19k RPM.