Can anyone advise:- I use brushed DC motors to drive several industrial sewing machines. I have 24V DC supply and I use UK made DC controllers. I have made foot pedals using a 10k pot. They work, but not very attractive. I note that there are quite a few electronic throttle pedals available from China, very neat and compact but they utilise Hall Effect sensors.
I would need a motor controller that can accept the input from a Hall Effect device. Does anyone know of such a thing??? I do have one such pedal up and running and it works well but by the time I purchase the controller, and then the makers reprogrammed / reconfigure it then the expense becomes prohibitive. I am not into electronics at all and its feasible that I am missing other electronic components that would help with creating a neat and functional pedal to use with these motors. I use 250W or 350W DC motors from electric scooters and they are plenty powerful enough for my use. I dont really know what the signal is. I’m pretty certain that a potentiometer varies resistance and thats what the controllers I use are designed for. I’m not sure what signal a Hall Effect device gives out!!
I have noted that there are electronic angle sensor devices which may be incorporated into a neat and functional pedal but am unsure what I would need to make that a possiblity., so as you can see, expert advice is needed here - Can anyone help???
Many thanks David
Hi @Davidmadd and welcome to our forum!
Can you share a link to that pedal you want to buy? There should be an electrical scheme where the output signals are defined.
Also, which DC controllers are you using?
Thank you.
Hi - I’m afraid I cant answer your questions as I havent yet bought the pedals. Nor have I bought the controller. I know the pedals work by hall effect. They are from China and are advertised as a Electric Throttle pedal for electric scooter. Relatively cheap, but there is no point in me buying one if I do not have a controller to work with it.
The one that is working is a cheap Chinese pedal as above and it is linked into a DC Controller supplied by 4QD here in the UK. I sent the company the one pedal I had and they tuned/programmed the controller to accept the Hall Effect signal. The problem here is that the controller is reasonably expensive and by the time I pay extra to programme the controller, the cost is prohibitive, so I’m looking for a DC Controller that “out of the box” will accept the Hall Effect signal which I believe is 0-5V.