Re: (ET) Sickle mower motor constantly kicks out

[Paul Anderegg <tpa2008 gmail com>]

I forgot to mention when I was troubleshooting it I took the secondary belt
off so that only the motor would spin in the center pulley. When I measured
the current then it only drew 10 amps.

On Sun, Aug 28, 2022, 7:24 PM Chris Zach via Elec-trak <
elec-trak cosmos phy tufts edu> wrote:

> 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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