HDD disk drive motor controler board

[joseLB]

Hi ME Team

Any of your boards can control a Hard Disk Drive spindle motor?´

If not, this can be a suggestion for a future Click board or whatever, as, most of us has a bunch of broken/old HDD, and, they spindle motor is very interesting for many applications, if we can control their speed, etc.

If not, do you know a driver Project for one HDD motor?

Regards
Jose

[petar.timotijevic]

Hi,

Thank you for participating in the improvement of our products, I'll pass your suggestion to our development team.

For now you can see our existing motor driver boards:

STEPPER click
http://www.mikroe.com/click/stepper/

DC MOTOR click
http://www.mikroe.com/click/dc-motor/

Bipolar Stepper Motor Driver Board
http://www.mikroe.com/add-on-boards/var ... or-driver/


Best regards,
Peter

[joseLB]

Hi,

Thank you for participating in the improvement of our products, I'll pass your suggestion to our development team.
For now you can see our existing motor driver boards: ...
Best regards,
Peter

Thanks Petar
At a first look, seems that the above controlers do not control directly na HDD motor. It´s correct?

I googled a lot for a HDD driver circuit, asked at many forums with no result.

My suggestion is that it would be something very simple for the PIC, something that we could:
1- start/stop motor
2- define direction
3- define speed
One concern into using the serial interface is that normaly it´s used for other communications, for example, PIC <->PC.

So, routines similarstep click could be a good solution, with the minimum use of ports, of course.
Jose

[petar.timotijevic]

Hi,

I already forwarded your suggestion to our development team for spindle motor.

In your design and project you can use UART communication between MCU and PC, I do not see problem in that.

Please visit Libstock web site at http://www.libstock.com and see this project:

BLDC Motor Control
http://www.libstock.com/projects/view/2 ... or-control


Best regards,
Peter

[joseLB]

Hi,

I already forwarded your suggestion to our development team for spindle motor.

In your design and project you can use UART communication between MCU and PC, I do not see problem in that.

Please visit Libstock web site at http://www.libstock.com and see this project:

BLDC Motor Control
http://www.libstock.com/projects/view/2 ... or-control


Best regards,
Peter

Thanks Petar
Only thing to note is that my suggestion is that they preferably do not use serial communications, to leave it for other purposes. And that they use some pic pins for the interface
Jose

[petar.timotijevic]

Hi,

I already forwarded your suggestion to our development team for spindle motor.

In your design and project you can use UART communication between MCU and PC, I do not see problem in that.

Please visit Libstock web site at http://www.libstock.com and see this project:

BLDC Motor Control
http://www.libstock.com/projects/view/2 ... or-control


Best regards,
Peter

Thanks Petar
Only thing to note is that my suggestion is that they preferably do not use serial communications, to leave it for other purposes. And that they use some pic pins for the interface
Jose

Hi Jose,

It is not a problem, a lots of MCUs has more then one UART, also you can use USB.


Best regards,
Peter