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I have disassembled two motor circuits that use a Hall sensor. One is a cooling fan blower and the other is a 230 VAC motor.

The blower has a brushless motor and has its Hall sensor on the stator board with the coils. The rotor is a solid magnet cylinder encompassing the whole stator.

The motor had its Hall sensor (SOT23, unrecognizable marking) facing a solid disc.

How does it detect turns (or calculate speed) if the magnet is a solid body?

ocrdu
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metsik
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    A 'solid body' can still be magnetically non-uniform. If it was uniform, it wouldn't work, therefore it must be non-uniform. – Neil_UK May 16 '23 at 07:36
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    Because liquid, gas, and plasma magnets were inconvenient for various reasons. – hobbs May 16 '23 at 15:50
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    Are you sure the hall sensor is detecting the disk, and not the magnetic rotor? The person who invents a magnet with only one pole will be rich, indeed. – spuck May 16 '23 at 17:24

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Magnets can be diametrically magnetized.

diametrically magnetized

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