Salvage Challenge - Make Me Spin

The Challange

These are multiphase motors from video cassette recorders. Lots moving to dumps now. There are some uses for these, see: Motors: Brushless at: Salvage Parts and Sources. The challange here is to power them up as motors using the drive electronics they alreay have. Typically they have 3 to 6 connections. It seems like applying the right signals to these would be all that it would take. But what are the signals?

Answers

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And the Judges Say

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The Prize

What should the winner get, who will provide it.