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Unread 04-03-2011, 15:45
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Re: Alternate Tetrix Motors and Batteries

You could use a lower fuse on the battery, the thermal protect wires or modify the burned out motors.

The part that cooks is an inductor that looks like a resistor, on our motor that burned up we simply cut it out, soldered a piece of copper wire in where it used to be and epoxied the motor shut (we were having difficulties getting the back plates out due to the tiny tabs so we just used tin snips to cut the tabs off) not competition legal but near identical performance without cooking.
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