Hi all,
I im new to this forum and electronics in a real depth . I must say im pretty impressed with the amount of knowledge on here. I had just posted a thread on taking an electronics course to be able to repair faulty motor control boards in treadmills. Which I think I will do. But I have a new round of questions. I have found a web site which im sure a lot of you have heard of. " ExpressPCB". Looks like they will make any control board for which you send in the schematics on there software. Through my service and from our small retail store we end up throwing away around 30 treadmills a year. Mainly because they cost to much to repair. Is it possible to make a simple motor control board that the speed can be adjusted by a potentiometer ( like some treadmills are ) but will still be of good quality and end up with a quiet running motor? For example, I use the Icon MC70 controller a lot, my thought was to simi copy that board but use only whats needed. Im thinking there is a lot of componets on it that I may not need as I wont have to worry about preset programs being run from the upper console of the treamill. In the end it just looks like I could save huge amounts of money if this idea was to work. With this board I need 115 volts AC in , then with a clean, smooth DC volts out , controlled by the potentiometer. Sounds simple to me, but im sure there's a lot more to it. Thanks for any replies to come.
I im new to this forum and electronics in a real depth . I must say im pretty impressed with the amount of knowledge on here. I had just posted a thread on taking an electronics course to be able to repair faulty motor control boards in treadmills. Which I think I will do. But I have a new round of questions. I have found a web site which im sure a lot of you have heard of. " ExpressPCB". Looks like they will make any control board for which you send in the schematics on there software. Through my service and from our small retail store we end up throwing away around 30 treadmills a year. Mainly because they cost to much to repair. Is it possible to make a simple motor control board that the speed can be adjusted by a potentiometer ( like some treadmills are ) but will still be of good quality and end up with a quiet running motor? For example, I use the Icon MC70 controller a lot, my thought was to simi copy that board but use only whats needed. Im thinking there is a lot of componets on it that I may not need as I wont have to worry about preset programs being run from the upper console of the treamill. In the end it just looks like I could save huge amounts of money if this idea was to work. With this board I need 115 volts AC in , then with a clean, smooth DC volts out , controlled by the potentiometer. Sounds simple to me, but im sure there's a lot more to it. Thanks for any replies to come.