BRINGSMART 12V 160rpm DC Worm Gear Motor 10kg.cm Self-Locking Engine Reversed Mini Turbine Geared Motor for DIY Robot Rotating Table Door Lock Curtain Machine (12V 160rpm)

Strong little motor

Great mini motor has plenty of torque for what I needed it for and the self-locking in place works very well.

I’ve seen others who have been interested in motorizing their Coolaroo Roller Shades. Well, I wanted that to so I figured out a ‘fairly’ easy way to do it. I’ve included a picture of the configuration and a video of the movement. The parts are: 12v 80rpm Reversing Motor B07F8S57JT , 8mm Flange Coupling B0822425TT , Motor Mounting Bracket B073NZ81M9 , 12V Momentary Rocker Switch (DPDT) Reverse Polarity B0885W19KL , and a 12v ~10amp Power Supply. It will take some playing around to get it all put together, but getting the right pieces was the hardest part. I didn’t play around with trying to get a controller that would have stopping points. Just one more thing to break. So, with this it’s manual stopping points controlled by removing your finger from the switch. I mounted my configuration to a backing board. This allowed me to get it all setup before mounting it. The motor end has to be elevated a little bit to get the roller parallel to the backing board. The non-motor end is just the clip-in end that comes with the Coolaroo blind. Instructions: Take the black plastic end off of the blind that will be attached to the motor end. Attach the flange coupling to that end. I had to make some modifications to the interior of the tube to make room for the small nuts and screw ends I used to attach the coupling. Figure out where the motor needs to be mounted. Once the motor is mounted you can slide on the coupling end on to the motor, lock it in place and snap the other end into the clip-in Coolaroo end. Search for “reverse polarity wiring diagram” in order to see how to wire the switch. For my testing and video I used a weak (1.5 amp) power supply. Using a 5-10amp supply should provide a little more umph. I experimented with a 6’ wide blind. I don’t believe the motor I used would handle anything bigger. It just wouldn’t have enough torque. Mine will be hung on the outside of the window. I’ll need to get wires into the house and figure out where I want the switch. I’m thinking of just embedding it in the molding on the inside of the window. __________ Up for 2 years and working well.

Used it for a motorized waterfowl decoy. It has a LOT of torque for its size. It is much smaller than I anticipated, but is good quality and simple to wire up. Very little noise under load as well.

I used this motor to automate the chute in my snowblower. It works very well

Very low torque, stripped the gears on the first use, extremely loud for the short time it worked. Junk.

Smooth and strong motor. More torque than I need for steering a trolling motor, but just the right speed (44 rpm). I added a hall potentiometer, 3D printed gears, microcontroller, and H bridge driver making it the perfect steering servo for my boat.

First one I bought didn’t last a year so I ordered an another one just didn’t realize I order from the same vender. The second one has been on for a couple months and hasn’t started acting up, yet! I don’t have a lot of faith in these starters. But who knows maybe I just got a bad apple with the first one. I’ll hold off on writing the review on the second one to see how it works out. I give it three stars because customer service was great!