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Bluechip:
That looks fine, George  :thumbup:

Just a general purpose switch mode supply. I was a bit concerned you described it as a 'transformer' which is just AC in and AC out ... As you were, carry on ... just ignore me ...  :lol:

Dave

mechman48:

Test running X axis drive...

Bigbadbugga:

I like that, runs real smooth. :clap:

BaronJ:
Hi George,

I've built a couple of mill table drives using wiper motors !  If you have it wired correctly they are very hard to stall.
At the moment I am using a 30 volt @ 3 amp variable power supply.  Neither motor takes more than a couple of amps at 12 volts.  My two motors are slightly different.  One uses the motor case as one of the connections and I suspect that is what you have.  If you feed power to the two wires the motor will rapidly get hot and won't produce a lot of torque.  One wire will give you low speed and the other will give you high speed.

I do have photographs but they are on another computer that I don't have access to at the moment.  Or you can check out this link.

 http://www.woodworkforums.com/184913-table-traverse-chinese-mill/

You will have to register to view the pictures.  But you will also be able to read the whole thread about both table traverse builds.

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