Originally Posted by chconnor

Sounds great, I'm all over the (appropriately-rated) lamp dimmer. :-) So the motor won't be affected negatively by doing this, then? Not sure why I thought that...

And if I wanted to be able to reverse the motor... if it's an AC motor, is that even possible? Maybe it would require some more in-depth rewiring...

And if it's DC then I could reverse the polarity with a double-throw switch, and that would take place post-transformer inside the blender?

Thanks again,
-Casey

Originally Posted by dknguyen

Don't blenders use AC motors? If so, just reducing or chopping the voltage won't make them run slower...just with less torque (although if it was an induction motor and not a synchronous motor, which is more expensive and therefore probably not used in a blender anyways, it might run slower just due to increased load on the motor.)

Controlling AC motor speed control is not nearly as straightforward as DC motors.

Originally Posted by Hero999

The motor shouldn't be harmed, to reverse it, swap over the armature connections.