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Re: Fixing Burnt Motors
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Originally Posted by Bill Beatty
I heard that at the Boilermaker Regional they were openly removing the choke in the mini bot motor. There was even a guy who was doing it for anyone who brought a motor to him. He said that it did not improve the motor performance and therefore was perfectly legal to take it out and replace it with a piece of wire.
Has anyone heard anything more on this subject? Although our sampling is very small, we have seen a significant improvement with the choke shunted out.
"Mr. Bill" Beatty
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I would be extremely interested in this as we have repaired several motors with the most equivalent inductor we could find and have noticed significant power decrease, as well as the motor only running for about 30 seconds before burning up again.
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