36V brushless motor, any use?

[Joeboy]

I have literally no clue as to how I'd go about building a WT off of a 36V brushless small form motor.

I did find myself bin diving today for the 36V battery operated chainsaw I'd Binned a couple of days ago. It lasted 2 years plus and did a huge amount of silent efficient work.

Wondering if I can get the motor to output rather than consume power via Wombles style add ons of a rotor and blades.

Unlikely I know but its quite a cool looking motor...

[Fintray]

Connect the battery cables to your voltmeter then spin the motor with a drill and see if you get any output first.

[Joeboy]

Connect the battery cables to your voltmeter then spin the motor with a drill and see if you get any output first.

Thanks Ian, will do. Was actually dreaming about it last night. Arrived at a 2ltr pop bottle as the motor housing. Fingers crossed it outputs as it is a very cool half fist sized motor. Plus I got the battery mount, would be nice to be charging the power tool battery packs off of a diy windy Miller affair.

[Marcus]

If it's a brushless d.c. motor then it probably has 3 large wires and outputs 3phase a.c., so put the voltmeter on a c. And connect to any two wires.

You may find that it needs to go unreasonably fast (for a wind turbine) to produce a usefull voltage, but that depends on what voltage you can make use of. And you never know.