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Re: Resilience of Motors using PID

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Originally Posted by DonRotolo View Post
(I cannot speak for the KoP motors, but some window lifter motors have an internal thermal circuit breaker that will cut power to prevent overheating)
The KoP Window Motors have locking pins, defeating the purpose of stalling it.

Original Poster: Building on what I said above, I would recommend replacing the PG71 with a window motor. The window motors have a similar power, RPM and torque output to the gear motor, along with locking pins, which essentially means that the shaft won't spin unless electrons are applied to the window motor. That sounds like what you are looking for.

Since you will want to use the locking pins, you can't use the motor with a Jaguar. Spike or Victor only.
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