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Originally Posted by Jared341
The mounting clamps for the Tetrix motors were the cause of nearly all of our blown fuses thus far - the motors will rotate in their housings over time, which has caused gears on the output shaft to mesh too tightly, stalling the motors.
Just one thing to keep an eye on.
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Are you clamping the motor or the gearbox? The supplied clamp fits best over the gearbox which is slightly larger diameter. If you are clamping the motor casing, I wouldn't predict a good outcome to that situation.
Fuses can be blown by stalling the motor, causing over-current. Also easy to blow fuses if you are using alligator clip connections to the motor supply tabs. Solder some heavy gauge stranded wire in two different lengths to those tabs and shrink some insulation over them. Then make your motor connections to those wires at the offset other ends. This will reduce the number of accidental shorts and save you a bunch of fuses.