Low Budget SRSG project

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Original poster: "by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <A123X-at-aol-dot-com>

Well I've succeded in making two microwave oven fan motors synchronous. I 
made two flats a little over 3/4" wide on a motor labeled as 18watts, it 
syncs up instantly with the 2" diameter disk which the fan blades were 
mounted on untill I broke them off. That being succesful I modified a larger 
one that is labeled for 120v/1A input. At first with 1/2" wide flats it 
wouldn't synchronize even though the disk isn't heavier than a CD, it would 
like sync for a fraction of a second then slip out of sync for 1/4 of a 
second then repeat. Taking some more off the armature so each flat was 5/8"  
wide caused it to synchronize after a couple of seconds of the already 
mentioned catching and slipping. Adding two brass bolts to the disk caused it 
to run below 3600rpm. I think maybe the problem is that there still needs to 
be a little more taken off the armature because I feel that this motor should 
be capable of spinning a rather small disk with small electrodes to sync. 
Maybe it is a torque issue but there's only one way to find out.

Mark