Hello Folks,

Here is the situation... I have been taking apart some OLD CDROM's. They have a 9 Pole brushless motor in them.

I would like to use that motor and its current windings. Thus, with a PIC, hopefully write a program to turn this motor.

1. Does anyone know how those motors are wound? Star? Delta? or some other configuration? I am suspecting some other configuration, because their seems to be 6 solder joints that are attached to some kind of wires, and 3 more than are attached to some SM chips.

2. Does anyone have any experience with these little motors?

If i cannot do the above, I will end up taking all the windings off, and winding them myself...Which I do not really want to do, but will give me exactly what I want, a star wired motor, with known wire leads.

Dwayne