Think I have burnt out my lathe motor

Hi Dave,
If you post some pictures of the speed controller board then someone on the forum may recognise it.

Les.

Thanks I will remove the boards and go from there. The wiring diagram is useless.

I contacted SPG the company I bought it from. If I send the boards to them they will test them and advise. Sounds fair enough to me. At least I will know for definite if one or both are goosed. Before I start throwing money at it. It sounds like they keep spares.

Edited By Dave Harding 1 on 19/08/2016 19:29:41

Up date:

In the end I think it was more to do with the wiring in my workshop. I up dated the electrics in the mean time I purchased an inverter a new motor and a speed controller. The lathe now runs like a sewing machine. I binned the old motor and all the Chinese electrics.

Hi , i have the same problem ,could you tell me what motor and gear you used please ? ta ,Mark

You are wrong Pete,

It was the butler,with the lead pipe !

There is a lot to be said for a simple induction motor with a push button switch and no gimmics,and let a gearbox or a beltdrive take care of the speeds. I HATE those vati speed plastic board machines. They are a pain-in-the-arse.

I bought a package from transwave. An inverter a motor and a speed controller. It was not difficult to fit and it works a treat.

Very similar to a Chester DB8VS as well although the name 2109 suggests it may be between a DB8 and a DB10...

There's quite a family of these 'larger than mini lathes' although the DB7 isn't practically greatly different from the usual Mini-lathe.

I don't think the board from a C2/3 would be ok for this as it's a rather bigger. But I thought it was from SPG who do carry spares?

Neil

Edit - just read the last post properly - that's exactly what I did with my mini lathe in the end.

Edited By Neil Wyatt on 13/08/2017 22:17:33

The inverter package has transformed my lathe its the best thing I ever did. It runs like a sewing machine.