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whit3rd
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On Sunday, September 9, 2007 7:46:02 PM UTC-7, Claude Desjardins wrote:
What symptoms?
No, of course that won't work! What it has, is an SCR/triac light-dimmer
type phase control circuit, followed up by a bridge rectifier into the
DC motor. So, you'd want to ignore the potentiometer
entirely, and wire from the SCR/triac MT1 terminal to the MT2 terminal.
But, those hardly ever go bad; have you cleaned and checked out the brushes, which
DO wear and become intermittent, and have you inspected the
commutator?
hillpc@emailaccount.com wrote:
I'm on my second electronic variable speed control inside my Dremel
model 395 tool. This one just crapped out with the same temperamental
symptoms as the last...
What symptoms?
Just take it apart, I'm pretty sure it's just a "potentiometer"
(variable resistor) so it would only have 3 leads
No, of course that won't work! What it has, is an SCR/triac light-dimmer
type phase control circuit, followed up by a bridge rectifier into the
DC motor. So, you'd want to ignore the potentiometer
entirely, and wire from the SCR/triac MT1 terminal to the MT2 terminal.
But, those hardly ever go bad; have you cleaned and checked out the brushes, which
DO wear and become intermittent, and have you inspected the
commutator?