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Re: Motor Sticking
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lugnet.robotics.rcx, lugnet.technic
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Wed, 1 Nov 2000 12:28:18 GMT
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Dave Ryder (NS) <daver@ansuz.nospam.demonSAYNOTOSPAM.co.uk>
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Rob,
Did you ever get any answers to this query? I also have three of the newer
Technic motors that have seized. (Out of a collection of about 10 motors
that's a 30% failure rate - not good!)
I suspect that this may occur with lack of use rather than over-use. One of
the motors was from a BarCode Pilot truck that I bought from a clearance
shop recently, I guess it must have been on a warehouse shelf for a couple
of years. The other two were from Technic sets bought approx. 18 months ago,
but not used for about 6-8 months.
I would be grateful if anyone has any input on this, but I am going to
approach TLG customer service about it anyway.
Regards, Dave.
Robert Libby wrote in message ...
> Hello all,
> I don't remember if other people have posted about this or not but I'll
> ask anyway.
> I have 3 motors that all stall or will not start with out some help. Has
> anyone of Lego come up with away to fix this problem? My motors are 1-2 yrs
> old and have not had what I would call a great deal of use. I have other
> motors from radio shack that are still running after 6 yrs of hard us. And
> they don't cost as much.
> Any help would be great.
>
> Rob Libby
>
>
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Message has 3 Replies:
 | | Re: Motor Sticking
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| (...) This might sound a bit silly, but it could be your electric cables. I also have a bunch of motors (most are 3-4 years old, one is 7 years old) and I use quite a bit. As far as I have noticed, they haven't had any problems. However, I have (...) (24 years ago, 1-Nov-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx, lugnet.technic)
| | | Re: Motor Sticking
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| Lego customer service is really good about this (as has been written before on this newsgroup). This is a known problem with this motor. On the suggestion of the various posters, I called up Lego Customer Service (number listed on their web site and (...) (24 years ago, 2-Nov-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx, lugnet.technic)
| | | Re: Motor Sticking
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| (...) I have about 16 motors and I have had, out of the box, 6 motors DOA... Other friends have more then 20 motors with 0 failures... I can only guess that I'm cursed with motors. S@H will replace ALL your dead motors... They did for me. Once when (...) (24 years ago, 3-Nov-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx, lugnet.technic)
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| | Motor Sticking
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| Hello all, I don't remember if other people have posted about this or not but I'll ask anyway. I have 3 motors that all stall or will not start with out some help. Has anyone of Lego come up with away to fix this problem? My motors are 1-2 yrs old (...) (24 years ago, 28-Aug-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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