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Unread 11-02-2011, 12:14
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Re: Smoking RS-550 motors

You know how infants have "baby teeth"? Banebot motors have "baby smoke".

They tend to vent a little smoke before running happily ever after (with no major discernible loss of performance). Did you actually destroy the motor, or just vent some baby smoke?

-John
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