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Re: (ET) motor current



On Thu, 27 Jul 2006, steves wrote:


I thought the motors were more like 1 HP. I have measured the current
with a DVM (if I recall correctly) and it can get over 10A (I think).
Problem is if you blow the DVM fuse - the replacement fuses are
expensive. I'm pretty sure 'idle' current is < 10A so you could measure
each motor running but not cutting and see if the suspect motor pulls
excess current.
I have gobs of fuses for DVMs here at work (students are constantly blowing them in our labs), but I think I'll still just try measuring the voltage drop along the leads to the motors instead. 

Mike