Thread: wiper motor question

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Hey guys. Ok first off I am completely illiterate when it comes to wiper motors. I looked at Scary Terry’s website and couldn’t make any sense of anything. Could some please help me by giving me step by step details on how to run my wiper motor using different methods. Here are pics to my motor. Thanks so much!

If that is the one from All Electronics, The ones I ordered had a sheet with them on the hook ups.

I will scan the sheet in tonight and post it for you.

basically the motors are pretty simple for most haunter purposes, there is a plus terminal and a ground terminal. hook 12V DC to these terminals and away the motor goes. hook up the wires backwards and the motor goes backwards.

I am working on several props this summer that will use these motors, I will post as I complete them. Some are planed to be simple, corpses that lean towards the patron's and what not, I have another planed that will be more complicated, a executioner pulling a switch to electrocute a guy (I already have the electric chair built). But I don't want the switch on a constant motion, so I am going to do limit switches and reverse the motor.

It is from all electronics. What do you mean by a 12V DC?

Basically 12V means 12 volts, usually supplied by a battery (like a car), a car charger (not too safe, if I read all the posts correctly), or another type of power supply like a "wall wart" or a computer power supply like Scary Terry recommends.

DC stands for Direct Current (as opposed to AC - Alternating Current). In real layman's speak most DC comes from batteries, while AC is what comes out of the outlets in your house. The power supplies that I mentioned change the current from AC to DC.

How do you wire a wall wart to this motor? I have one at home that I could try.

nice motor can i have it? J/K
can I ask where you got it and how much $$$

Here is a page that may help you with your motor:

http://www.my-mania.com/halloween/wipermotor.html

And of course Scary Terry's page is pretty much required reading on the subject:

http://www.scary-terry.com/wipmtr/wipmtr.htm

As a note on this motor, because of the circuitry for the self parking feature, this particular motor really doesn't like to run at voltages other than 12 volts, without some modification. In order to be run at lower voltages for reduced speed, you basically have to bypass the circuitry and connect directly to the motor.

But the self parking feature is really handy if you want the motor to stop at the same point each time (like for a Monster in a Box).

Here is the scan of the instructions that came with the same motors I bought from All Electronics.

The image is small here, but I have a large one on my photobucket:

http://s10.photobucket.com/albums/a120/bradbaum/