[Robotgroup] Help with Invacare Pronto 250 Wheelchair motors

[Paul Atkinson]

My guess is the lighter gauge pins are for brakes. I'd be willing to help
ohm them out.

Paul

On 5/29/07, Vern Graner <vern at txis.com> wrote:
>
>
> I have an Invacare Pronto 250 mobility chair chassis I am retrofitting
> to make a mobile platform. It has two "wheelchair" motors but the motors
> have four leads coming from each one. Two are large gauge (i.e. like ~12
> ga) and the other two are smaller (~16 ga).
>
> I have applied power to the large gauge wires and the motor turns, but
> I'm not sure what the other two wires are for... are they encoder wheel
> feedback? Maybe motor brakes? Anyone have any experience with this type
> of motor? I'll get model numbers off them when I get home tonight if
> that will help.
>
> Vern
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