Hi,
I'm really new to electronics
what I'm doing is the project to control the speed of a small DC motor that a got from a pile of junk, I connect the motor and the pot to a 6v battery but when i try to regulate the speed i burn the pot and the motor runs at full speed, and smoke starts in the pot,
if i connect the motor to a 1.5 v battery it works fine but if a use the pot as voltage divider from a 6v to have aprox 1.5 volts the motor dont work, why is this?
is this because the motor is not a variable speed motor?
I'm using a 50k pot , 6v battery and small 1 inch motor, cant tell u anything else about the motor because dont have any printed clue
thanks for any help and please excuse my poor english
I'm really new to electronics
what I'm doing is the project to control the speed of a small DC motor that a got from a pile of junk, I connect the motor and the pot to a 6v battery but when i try to regulate the speed i burn the pot and the motor runs at full speed, and smoke starts in the pot,
if i connect the motor to a 1.5 v battery it works fine but if a use the pot as voltage divider from a 6v to have aprox 1.5 volts the motor dont work, why is this?
is this because the motor is not a variable speed motor?
I'm using a 50k pot , 6v battery and small 1 inch motor, cant tell u anything else about the motor because dont have any printed clue
thanks for any help and please excuse my poor english