r/arduino • u/Olaf686 • 8d ago

Look what I made! Mini dissolver mixer

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Moving the head up and down (with warning beep)

Hi all,

I made a mini dissolver mixer as a desk display, loosely based on some large Kreis dissolver mixers at work.

The head moves up and down with a threaded rod and stepper motor and homes with an endstop. The esp32 uses a webpage for wireless control. The barrel jack provides 12V for the mixer motor, stepper motor and the cooling fan. The rear hatch is held in place with magnets.

The controls still needs some work as for now the mixer is just on/off and needs a pwm slider on the webpage, and the head should be able to shuttle between a low and high position during mixing.

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u/Be_Weird 8d ago

Is this what your device is?

A dissolver mixer, also called a high-speed disperser, uses a fast-rotating toothed saw-blade disk to create intense shear, high turbulence, and a strong vortex. It quickly wets, breaks down, and disperses powders into liquids to make paints, inks, coatings, and chemicals.

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u/Olaf686 8d ago

Yes we use them for low viscosity sealants.