Hello everyone,
I have next to no knowledge and this is my first post so please excuse the ignorance and if this is not posted in the right section please let me know and I will move it.
I bought two cheap ripple effect party light off ebay for my girlfriends ocean themed party. It is basically a circuit board with a RGB led light, a dc motor which spins a plastic light diffusing disc to ripple the light via a small gearbox, cooling fan, IR receiver, and mode switch.
One light works perfectly, the motor spins the disc in one direction without stopping as it should. However, the other light has an issue with the motor direction. The motor will spin the disk but at the end of every rotation it will reverse direction for about 1 second, then the motor twitches back and forth for about half a second, then the motor continues to turn in the original direction. This happens at the same point on each rotation of the motor.
Does anyone know what is causing this and if/how I can fix it so the motor just turns in one direction non-stop as it should?
Thanks very much.
I have next to no knowledge and this is my first post so please excuse the ignorance and if this is not posted in the right section please let me know and I will move it.
I bought two cheap ripple effect party light off ebay for my girlfriends ocean themed party. It is basically a circuit board with a RGB led light, a dc motor which spins a plastic light diffusing disc to ripple the light via a small gearbox, cooling fan, IR receiver, and mode switch.
One light works perfectly, the motor spins the disc in one direction without stopping as it should. However, the other light has an issue with the motor direction. The motor will spin the disk but at the end of every rotation it will reverse direction for about 1 second, then the motor twitches back and forth for about half a second, then the motor continues to turn in the original direction. This happens at the same point on each rotation of the motor.
Does anyone know what is causing this and if/how I can fix it so the motor just turns in one direction non-stop as it should?
Thanks very much.