It looks like a brushless DC motor to me. And those are Allegro Hall
Effect sensors on the PCB, no doubt for control feedback. That would
also explain the extra wires. I bet if you put the meter to them they
are connected to the outputs of the hall switch, supply V and common
ground.

You can probably use a monolithic DC brushless controller IC to get it
going pretty quickly. I'm not sure who has the coolest parts these
days, but I'm sure a google search would turn up some liely candidates.

Matt Pobursky
Maximum Performance Systems

On Wed, 3 Dec 2003 12:58:26 -0600, D Yates wrote:
> Well I opened it.  As several people mentioned it does look to be in
> some sort of delta configuration, 3 pairs of coils for six total
> windings.
> There are also some chips soldered to the inside back cover for the
> rest of the input wires, but I don't recognize any of them.  There
> are three marked "6853 / D669" and one marked as "AUGN / 3175 / 529".
> The chips don't appear to be wired at all to the windings - could
> these be hall effect sensors or something for a feeback mechanism?  I
> put some pictures on the web if anybody wants to take a peek.
>
>
> www.nerdulator.net/motor/
>
> Now another question - is this not a stepper motor?  I really don't
> care about the feeback mechanism right now, but I'd like to be able
> to get it spinning.

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