Best method to connect the pot to the motor?

Hi to all.

Which is the best method to connect the pot to the engine?

1. insert the rod of the pot directly into the back of the motor


2. using a threaded rod into the back of the motor connected to the rod of the pot via a elastic coupling

Thanks for your help!

Using a Flex Coupler would be the EASIEST Guaranteed way to not transfer the Damaging forces a motor can induce on a pot. Elastic coupling's can actually lead to issues in itself with quick motor movements.

yes i have read the thread http://www.xsimulator.net/community/faq/how-to-connect-potentiometer.13/

Now i would like your feedback.

Thanks

That would have been clearer if you linked the FAQ in your first post indeed. ;-)

It depends of your motor model! What motor have you got?
Yours
Mat

mounting the pot to the motor has been bothering me since a while. Actually none of the setup is perfect but all of them is workable

Hi @RacingMat, now i am using 2 motors for wipers (if they'll be weak i'll change them)

heres another idea, use a plastic cut out lever for single turn pot, granted it uses less range, but the pot will not break

yes... i had seen it but i think that it is difficult to create.

ok, thats how I started, but what ever works for you

I'm thinking to put the potentiometer on the back of the motor.

Yesterday i have opened my 2 wiper motor to see where i can drill to put the potentiometer but when i opened it i noticed that there is pcb rear:





How can i do?

take it out and leave connectors going to the brushes (if they are connected through the PCB)

but for the project the pcb into the motorwiper is needed or not?
i can remove it?

you just need the two wires going to motors brushes thats all (high speed).
pcb is there for parking mode(when used on car for wipers).

Hi insanegr, thanks for your replay.
But there is online a manual/tutorial on how to modify the wipermotor?
For me is the first project and i don't want to mess

@siantic take a look here http://www.xsimulator.net/community/faq/wiper-motor-mandatory-ground-isolation.25/
may help if not we are here

Thanks @insanegr !!!

My motor wiper is different from the one in the picture.

Where i can find the ground pin, low-speed pin and hi-speed pin?


and how i can open it to find the brush that's connected on the body?
(it seems to be a whole body)

See the brushes:
go behind the PCB and solder your wires straight on them

@siantic do what @RacingMat told you.

you have only one speed as you have only two brushes