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Re: (ET) Sickle mower motor constantly kicks out
If the internal magnets came loose would the current draw be higher than 10
amps with just the motor and one pulley spinning?
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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