Is it a PM motor? If so I'd say pull it and check the magnets, one of
them may be unglued.

It is quite possible to re-glue the magnets to the housing, the key is
to make some nice wood spacers that hold it in place tightly, then put
JB Weld in there and make sure the wood is tight.

I did this with 3 of the 4 magnets on my leaf vacuum and on two fat deck
motors, no problems since. But when a magnet came loose on a mower motor
it drew a lot of current and kept popping the breaker.

C

On 8/28/2022 6:53 PM, Paul Anderegg wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> The motor on my sickle motor is constantly kicking out. It runs anywhere
> from maybe 5 to 15 seconds and then kicks out even if it's not cutting any
> grass.
>
> The motor doesn't seem to be getting hot but the little circuit breaker
> does heat up and kicks out. I measured the amperage and it peaks at about
> 110 when I first started up and then slowly dropped off to the lowest I saw
> was 70 amps.
>
> I turned everything over by hand and everything rotates quite easily.
> There's nothing that's binding up anywhere that I can find.
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