Wiring Oriental Motor Motors
by David Kohanbash on December 20, 2018
I really like the Oriental Motor motors and gear boxes. The motors work well and they have nice gearbox configurations. In particular I like these for driving wheels on medium size robots.
While I really like the products, the company support is lacking. In particular they will not give out the wiring instructions or detailed specifications for their products.
This is just a quick post as a wiring guide for the Oriental Motors motors. I have successfully used these colors on several DC brushless motors that they sell. However I can not make any guarantees that the motors you purchase will be the same.
For the motor power wires here are the wire colors:
| Wire | Function |
| Purple | Phase A |
| Blue | Phase B |
| Grey | Phase C |
For the hall sensor wires:
Wire | Function |
| Green | RTN/GND |
| Yellow | +5VDC |
| Brown | Phase A |
| Red | Phase B |
| Orange | Phase C |
Hope this helps!
To read more about motors see these posts:
Motors & Feedback: https://robotsforroboticists.com/motor-types/
Selecting and Sizing Your Motor (and gear boxes): https://robotsforroboticists.com/motor-selection/
Main Image Source: https://www.orientalmotor.com/products/pdfs/2009-2010/B/blv_series.pdf
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