{"id":324,"date":"2014-03-30T10:50:54","date_gmt":"2014-03-30T14:50:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jimlund.org\/blog\/?p=324"},"modified":"2014-03-30T10:50:54","modified_gmt":"2014-03-30T14:50:54","slug":"idea-make-a-microcentrifuge-using-rc-motors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jimlund.org\/blog\/?p=324","title":{"rendered":"Idea: make a microcentrifuge using RC motors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The motors made for RC planes and cars are high speed and high power.<\/p>\n<p>For example, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hobbyking.com\/hobbyking\/store\/__27862__Turnigy_Trackstar_1_10_12_0T_3300KV_Brushless_Motor.html\">Turnigy Trackstar 1\/10 12.0T 3300KV Brushless Motor, $23<\/a> specs are:<br \/>\nKv: 3300<br \/>\nMax Voltage: 15v<br \/>\nMax current: 35amps<br \/>\nWatts: 550<br \/>\nResistance: 0.0221Ohms<br \/>\nMax RPM: 50000<\/p>\n<p>The load on a microfuge will be greater&#8211;22 tubes x 1.5 ml can be roughly 44g, figure a 100g total load with the rotor.  So slower than max, but still quite fast.<\/p>\n<p>High power ESC modules are sold to run these motors.  So they take DC power, and a servo like signal (PWM), +5, GRD.<\/p>\n<p>So a 10k RPM microfuge can be made with one of these motors + ESC, a servo for locking the lid, and a microcontroller to run it, take speed \/ time settings, and monitor and show the RPMs on a display.<\/p>\n<p>Power could be from a PC power supply or a dedicated supply.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The motors made for RC planes and cars are high speed and high power. For example, the Turnigy Trackstar 1\/10 12.0T 3300KV Brushless Motor, $23 specs are: Kv: 3300 Max Voltage: 15v Max current: 35amps Watts: 550 Resistance: 0.0221Ohms Max RPM: 50000 The load on a microfuge will be greater&#8211;22 tubes x 1.5 ml can [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-324","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimlund.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimlund.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimlund.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimlund.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimlund.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=324"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jimlund.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimlund.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimlund.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimlund.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}