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(...) Hi Chris, If you just leave the motor on without pressing the red button does it also stop? The battery boxes have a built in current limiter that will stop current flow if you are drawing too much power. Could that be the problem? Kev (19 years ago, 6-Oct-05, to lugnet.technic)
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(...) no, this problem is more sinister, in my experiments, I only had one unloaded motor directly connected to the battery box. I do not feel using this simple set up, i overloaded the limiter. And to answer your first question YES, under normal (...) (19 years ago, 6-Oct-05, to lugnet.technic)
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(...) The current limiter is a small disk located near the end of one of the top two batteries, and positioned vertically. Steve (19 years ago, 6-Oct-05, to lugnet.technic)
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(...) ...and looks like this one inside the 2838 motor: (URL) (19 years ago, 7-Oct-05, to lugnet.technic)
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