Thread: What is a denso window motor?
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Re: What is a denso window motor?
Under load the window motor is kind of useful... up until a certain point.

Basically it has a safety feature that shut's itslf off when it gets too hot. This is called a thermal protective device.

The actual application of a window motor, is to crank up a power window.

Since there is no switch to shut it off if you keep holding the button down to put the window up, what (I'm told) the motor does is have that safety built in and power itself off when it overloads itself when the window hits the top of the frame.
(Does someone want to verify that for me... I'm getting this info second hand, and while it makes sense, I don't know if it's 100% accurate)

Basiallly in the end, just be careful what kind of loads you put it under.. and test with the motor a lot before using it for a final application on your robot.

It's good to drive some smaller applications, but unreliable under a heavy load as far as I'm concerned from our experience with them in the past.
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