pic: burnt up TETRIX motor

[billbcc91]

Al says that is an inductor and he is usually right. But it does look like a resistor to this mechanical engineer who remembers just about nothing from my EE courses 20 years ago. So I could very easily be mistaken.

Somebody asked about the value of part. If it is a resistor, you can tell by the color of the bands. I can't tell what the inner 2 bands are from the photo due to the crispiness. Maybe somebody who has cracked a motor open can post what the band colors are. Here is a link about how to decode the color bands to a value.

http://www.electronicsteacher.com/tu...a-resistor.php

I would expect there may be an equivalent code for inductors?