Anybody Know how to wire this 12v slide motor??

[robertglines1]

when you hooked it up no hum or anything?(in a bind)  The two wire slide motors I use you just basically reverse the wire polarity to change direction.    Might try manual moving shaft incase there is a little corrision causing poor elect contact inside motor.   Or pull end plate and make sure brushes are clean. Some of those had a manual lever on end(didn't appear in picture) that was a disconnect switch.   Bob

[Len Silva]

How did you wire it up.  The ground (frame) is not connected to anything in this motor.  You just connect the battery to the two wires.  To reverse, you reverse the connections.  It's not one wire for forward and the other for reverse.

[robertglines1]

just switch the wires.  forget  about any other grounding.  It works! Is working on my slide motors now.

[Jeremy]

The only idea I have to add to that would be to check the brushes in the motor, if they are of the serviceable / replaceable sort (but probably not, from what I can see in the photo). The motor might simply be dead, but there isn't really much to fail in a simple DC motor unless it's been burnt out through abuse (run on the wrong voltage, or overheated by being overloaded or stalled).

So I'm wondering again about the wiring - everything suggests that it is a simple two-wire hook up, but it might be something different. We'd need a better photo of the end of the motor to determine that. The only other alternative - assuming the motor isn't dead - is that the 'internal' limit switches are cutting off the power, but that presumably shouldn't be the case when the ballscrew mechanism clearly isn't at either end of it's travel.

Jeremy

[luvrbus]

Bob is telling  you how they work hook a ground to one wire a positive to the other it will go in that direction reverse the 2 wires it will go in the other unless the motors are stuck or bad, so you know the studs are for when you use 2 slides on 1 room for wiring to the other slide motor so 1 switch controls both then they are in sync

good luck

[Dreamscape]

Test was a success. The motor does not stop at the end of the stroke, so we'll just wire a limit switch on both ends of the travel to break the current.

Thanks for the help guys!