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Re: Motors: Past and Future

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Originally Posted by Al Skierkiewicz View Post
Back in the day we called them "Chalupas". Please remember that these are designed as intermittent duty motors for lifting trailer tongues onto hitches. They are sealed to provide some weather proofing. The drill motors were discontinued because they were replaced with another design.
Magnets, Rich is a motor guy by day and my motor reference person. when he speaks, listen. I am thinking we ran two CIM and two FP motors on that drive system. They were obviously geared differently. At that time, both the drill and FP motors suffered from low RPM, high current designs. What complicated things, as the temperature began to rise, the fan actually fell off the shaft or simply melted. Then it was a simple matter of thermal runaway. For some reason, drill motors also had a nasty habit of emitting flame when they failed.
So...flame is what makes motors work, right? Somewhat like how electronics work on magic smoke?