Hi all,

I am a short filmmaker and am trying to construct a prop with a SPINNING wheel for an UPCOMING short film.  I have settled upon the drive motor from an old 5 1/4" TEAC floppy drive for the motive power, but am unable to work out two essential elements A) the voltage these things ran on, and b) how to connect a battery to make the thing move (it needs to be something like this setup, to avoid causing any damage to actors, crew etc.)

It's an unpaid/"No budget" film.

SO if someone could give me any idea of the correct CONNECTIONS to look for, I would be eternally grateful!

Cheers from "downunder",

Ian Newman
PS: I am a qualified "house electrician", but was never trained in electronics.Ian Newman..... If you look at the back of the  51/4" floppy drive , you will see two (2) rectangular plugs ......
one has many pins ....( I can count then if you REALLY want to know ....)  the other will have just 4 pins .....thats the one you want ....... If you can get a hold of an old pc power SUPPLY and cut off one of the 4 pin plugs ...... the voltage of the motor is 12 volts......

Good luck.

dl65  

Thanks muchly dl65!

Cheers