@kmreed55 Yes the motor has a nice photo interrupt sensor and quadrature wheel built into it. I'll post my results once I decide. Thanks to a...

@davee You are correct its a treadmill for waling exercise . I'm in the US with 120V power, this is just a hobby of mine to see if I can run my dri...

@zander The thread mill motor I have is rated at 90V and the specs say it has a max draw of 7A. All the information I have seen uses a potentiameter...

@davee I appreciate the advice, I'm not rushing into anything, I'm doing the research to see if this is something I want to tackle. I like to know h...

@zander Thank you for the references. I'll start reading.

Hi @zoolandermicro, thanks for the advice I'll check them out.

Thank you for the encouragement, I really think I got confused with the pin out because I traced all the wire paths and it was almost a mirror of what...

@will , I tried to keep soldering to a minimum, also could not get the schematic drawn correctly. I'm just starting out, so I really do not have muc...

I re-read my post and realized how vague the question was. The first time I did this I got the wiring wrong so I thought I would post the schematic ...

@inst-tech Thanks for the input, i'm still learning the concept pull-up and pull-down resistors which seem to resolve many of the issues I have with ...

@melbul the code modification to the map command worked. I also deleted the write commands to the dir pin Thanks to everyone, apologies for my tar...

I put the voltmeter across the DC motor leads and it shows the voltage ramping up and down, but the polarity stays positive. Thanks Sal

I changed the code to point to PIN4 and also set the jumper for PIN 4 on the Cytron card. Now the print statements in the console show the PIN state...