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Re: How "bad" are motors with "bad" stickers?

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Originally Posted by cooknl
As mentioned by sanddrag and shyra1353 (Message #26 in the same thread), we too received a motor with a red/orange sticker with the handwritten word "BAD" on it.

When we hooked it up to the 12V battery, it seemed to work fine in both directions, plenty of torque, but we haven't done any additional testing.

Has this happened before? (We're rookies...)
Check out the Q&A:
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Originally Posted by ID: 1046
Q:I know that we were only supposed to recieve one sliding door motor, but our one motor has a sticker on it marked "bad". Can we get a replacement?
A:Your motor is good. The sticker is something used in the automotive industry.
So apparently this is a special automotive meaning of BAD that doesn't mean what we think it does.
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