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Loud Motors...need quieter...
allroy1975:
I'm building a Jukebox and it's going to be awesome...I mean..besides my substandard wood working skills. It'll play music and sound pretty good.
I don't know if you've ever seen a Jukebox with CDs spinning at the top of it - they usually have 3 spinning around and just missing each other- but I wanted to have this on my juke.
I built it, but the motors I used are pretty loud.
Here's a video of what I'm talking about with the CDs spinning, and you can hear the motors a little bit. I think a lot of the sound on that video is just background noise from the 2 computers I'm standing next to, but you gotta beleive me...these things are too loud.
http://www.pac-mat.com/Projects/JukeBox/video/LoudMotors.mpg
Thanks
Allroy
Timoe:
looks freagin sweeet!
sorry I cant help you though. ???
rdagger:
Cool effect.
What kind of motors are you using? It doesn't seem like you would need a very powerful motor. If you take apart and old PC you'll find several motors such as in the CD drive, floppy drive, hard drive, CPU cooler and the fans. Probably want to use a brushless motor. Also you could probably use a single motor and set up a belt drive.
allroy1975:
It's all gear driven. I've got some beast of a motor (not fast but overly powerful) with a gear on it, driving 2 other gears that have CDs sticking up out of them.
The problem with a CPU fan is that it's either not strong enough or it'll spin at 900 RPM ;)
so a slow quiet motor.
Allroy
rdagger:
--- Quote from: allroy1975 on May 28, 2005, 09:09:22 pm ---The problem with a CPU fan is that it's either not strong enough or it'll spin at 900 RPM
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