This monster eats 2400 Watt raw power!

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what is that? Reminds me of an old vacuum cleaner my parents got in early 1990's that thing had loud noise and ate power more than Google Chrome eats RAM lol

Broke the scissor :/

Look at this bullshit.

@gitpush lol you found what it is.
It is a vacuum cleaner

Nice motor. I'd salvage it and use it as a reason to buy a newer, more efficient vacuum cleaner. Perhaps I should salvage the motor of my own vacuum cleaner too.. they're quite powerful! And the ability of them to (usually) run on single phase AC does of course introduce quite a few possibilities. Given that she's running on 230VAC and has 2.4kW of power in her, 10A of current.. either she's super fast or she's got quite a bit of torque in her. Either way, she's a beast of a motor! Be sure to cherish her :)

@-ANGRY-CLIENT- for real? Thanks was a lucky guess 😂

@Condor haha I want to make a go kart out of it. MAYBE! :)

@gitpush yesh.
I am not sure if that product is from the 90s tho. I would deny it.
If you are interested in the product itself, it is called "BOB-HOME 2525 2400 Watt red"

@-ANGRY-CLIENT- With 2400W that might very well be possible :3 though you'll probably want a DC motor for that. AC is quite difficult to bring into portable appliances after all, without something like an inverter (maybe your motor can run off of a 50Hz square wave which switches polarities with MOSFET's, if it does, consider yourself lucky) so you'd want to have a DC motor for that.. or perhaps a BLDC, which I'd be looking at for my DIY electric bike as well. Then you can power it through a bunch of Li-Po batteries and an ESC. But given that you've got this motor already, maybe try powering it through an H-bridge. Be sure to feed it a safe voltage though, something like 12V or whatever your power supply can deliver. At lower voltages it'll still turn, it'll just turn slower.

@-ANGRY-CLIENT- lol I'm amazed it's still running, I think the one we had died,but I recall using it up until 2013 😂

@Condor It already has the controlling unit. Besides of that... AC to DC makes me think a lot rn

@-ANGRY-CLIENT- There does seem to be a control unit of some sort, but no rectification.. so it's probably gonna be an AC motor. I guess you could check by spinning the motor shaft manually. If there's some back feed into a particular orientation (2 of them usually) that's an indication that there's permanent magnets inside. That'd imply that it's a DC motor. Otherwise, it's probably an AC motor.. especially when the motor leads are shorted to the AC leads. Try to check continuity on those. For a Go-cart you could probably use a 50Hz square wave, after all motors are inductive loads so they don't really care about the form of the power they're given.. so there's that. MOSFET's should be suitable for an AC motor. I'd generally prefer a DC motor though.. just that there's wear from the brushes, which a BLDC (which doens't have any brushes) would be better for.

@Condor seems like an AC motor to me. There was no back feed whilst spinning in both directions.

Seems you found a powerful CPU fan xD

I'm embarrassed to say this, but i still don't understand the how to know if a
power measurement is too much or not.

2400 watt sounds too much but against what reference?

A car being able to go at upto 160 kmph sounds normal. But if a car can go upto 420 kmph, that is quite extreme compared to normal speed.

What would be a similar analogy in in case of power measurement?

@HoloDreamer
Incandescent lamp ~60W
Microwave ~300W
Gaming rig ~750W
Portable heater ~2000W

Vaccum cleaner turbine?

Yes i guessed correctly.
@-ANGRY-CLIENT-

Damit Condor was faster...
That motor likes to spin FAST but it would accelerate SLOWLY

The best motor you can use that is electric is BLDC. You need a ESC and few li-po or li-ion batteries to power that.

(Lead acid might work but it is HEAVY) Personaly i would use lead acid because im a chepskate.

If you are looking for a good cheap dc motor try disassembling washing machines. There is 50/50 chance you will get one. Washing machine dc motors want to go FAST and have a very small tourqe but they are much better that this vaccum cleaner one!

1.They already have the shaft for a belt that you can easly use or modify
2. They have already the mounting points for bolts
3. They use dc so you dont have to use inverters!
4. You can use the belt to increase the tourqe a bit.

@lucaspar microwave ovens are usually closer to 800W-1kW - that vacuum tube inside requires quite a bit of power to operate after all. And they operate at 2kV so there's also nice transformers in there :3
Incandescent lamps are pretty inefficient by the way, 60W wouldn't entail a whole lot of light 🤔 maybe 6W of light (everything else is lost to heat), could light up a small room I guess?

@Condor microwaves are tricky because you can choose the power you need. 300W is usually enough for unfreezing or heating your food.
Sure incandescent lights are inefficient, it's just another reference.

Actually it's most likely an universal motor, so it can ran on AC or DC, you can even see the commutator bars in the picture. The PBC looks like some simple speed control using a triac.