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Re: Window Motor question

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Originally Posted by Coffeeism View Post
The heat generated in total would be cut down as you are running the motors more efficiently. With two motors ( and based on your current measurements) you'd be running a at close to 80% efficiency, with a single motor you'd be running closer to 60% efficiency. You'd also have twice the surface area to dissipate less than half the excess heat.

I don't have too much experience running these window motors to know under what loads the PTC likes to trip.
I don't understand how this works, but a 20% increase in efficiency, what does that gain us in terms of performance? Say now we can raise it twice, and it fails half way up the third time. Would this give us a real boost in a match? Would it complete a third trip up? Four?