The purpose of this page is to break down the project into different easy to digest parts. Hopefully, each little section listed below will have some sort of stand alone merit. This whole project is a learning process for me and some of the learning curves that I am experiencing are pretty steep.
Many times when you find a motor it is not labeled with anything at all or very little if anything. You grasp the motor by the shaft and give it a twist. You suspect it may be a stepper motor or at least feels like one base on descriptions we have read. But what leads got to what coils? Are they center tapped or are they just coils. The above experiments trys to explain how to locate and mark the leads of different coils in the motor.
