A picture of a DC motor power wrapper conversion.

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Nice, Roger! Looks clean.

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Hi Roger,
Nice work.Any info on the headstock or other components be great.Would like to do similar someday. What to use for headstock and foot pedal has me stumped. When I made my variable speed drier some of your posts helped immensely.
Scott.

Scott,
A very good headstock and chuck is the headstock and chuck made by Taig.

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These are the same items used on some of the excellent commercial power wrappers on the market.

The foot pedal that I use is from a WAH dunlop guitar amp pedal. The reason that I use this pedal is that it allows me to use a standard high quality potentiometer with a gear drive to allow for the full 270 degree potentiometer rotation necessary for 100% control of the DC motor speed controller.

Roger,

Looks GREAT !
Can’t wait to see it in action!

Jon Hood

Hi Roger,
I've been pouring over the pages of the forum and found this old post and had a few questions if you're willing.

"The foot pedal that I use is from a WAH dunlop guitar amp pedal. The reason that I use this pedal is that it allows me to use a standard high quality potentiometer with a gear drive to allow for the full 270 degree potentiometer rotation necessary for 100% control of the DC motor speed controller."

I'm in the process building my first power wrapper. I'm using a 24V DC, 180 rpm gearmotor. I have a cheap Amazon speed controller that does a pretty decent job of handling the variable speed requirements and a reversing switch. Where I'm scratching my head is with the foot pedal control. In the post you mention the WAH pedal and I have a few questions.

First, I've never physically seen a WAH pedal, but I think I generally understand how they work. Are you gutting the pedal and just using the menchanical pedal and adding your own pot, or are you using the pot function of the pedal?

Second, are you feeding the pedal output into your speed controller and bypassing the controller's pot to allow foot operated speed control?
Any help or direction you can give would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,
Dean