AW: 50Hz Pulley for 8" Floppy Drive Mitshubishi M2894-63B

[Charles Dickman]

On Sat, Nov 10, 2018 at 3:27 PM Chuck Guzis via cctalk <
cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote:

> One could also take Tony's approach and simply cobble up a
> crystal-controlled 60Hz source for the motor.  Shouldn't be too
> difficult--I suspect that the motor doesn't draw more than about 30W.
> If you had an excess of 12VDC, you could possibly use an inexpensive
> inverter to do the job.
>
>
Never saw a floppy drive with an AC motor. In the past discussions about
50Hz vs 60Hz drive, I expected it to be a 120/240 VAC motor. So is it
actually a low voltage (synchronous) AC motor?