Before hooking up the motor and controller to the test batteries, I decided to do a quick test of the controller with the pot-box. The Alltrax AXE7245 controller is quite nice in that you can just use a regular serial cable to communicate with and program it. This will open up some embedded control options later on, but for now, I am going to use the ControllerPro software that comes free from Alltrax to monitor and program it.

The Pot-Box is just a … well.. potentiometer. It comes with two leads and go to two contacts on the controller. Convenient.

And hey, it works! The following is a wonderful video showing just that.

By the end of the day, I will hopefully have tested the controller with some real batteries and the actual motor.