I've recently acquired a really nice 3hp, 1780rpm, 120V (or 240V) AC motor that was formerly driving a high-end (Matrix) treadmill. It was headed to the scrap heap because the control panel wasn't working anymore, but the motor itself is still good, and I want to turn it into a wood lathe once I get it home (currently out of the country, but should be home in a month or so).
It's slotted, so I'm probably going to put it under the headstock with a shield to keep shavings out and just run a belt from the spindle up to the headstock, plus I can get an initial change in speed and torque, but it's got a molex connector where it plugged into the PC board in the treadmill, and this is where I get lost.
How do I go about finding or building a PC board, preferable with a simple On/Off switch and a variable resistance rheostat (or something to that effect) to adjust the RPMs? I know there are kits out there like Raspberry Pi, but having never used one, I don't know if that's really useful for my application.
Thanks in advance!
It's slotted, so I'm probably going to put it under the headstock with a shield to keep shavings out and just run a belt from the spindle up to the headstock, plus I can get an initial change in speed and torque, but it's got a molex connector where it plugged into the PC board in the treadmill, and this is where I get lost.
How do I go about finding or building a PC board, preferable with a simple On/Off switch and a variable resistance rheostat (or something to that effect) to adjust the RPMs? I know there are kits out there like Raspberry Pi, but having never used one, I don't know if that's really useful for my application.
Thanks in advance!
