Last week the gate motor at work stopped running, just after I arrived at work. Traced the fault to the gate motor itself, and called the agents ( Centurion0 and got the motor as a spare part, instead of changing the entire actuator arm. Got a new motor, took the actuator apart and after some work got the pieces back together and in one piece that worked. Old motor would turn, but was very rough, and it would stall out and stop in places.
On opening the motor I discovered it was slightly well crispy, and was very well sealed as well, as until I undid the motor screws holding the ends on I did not smell any of that " Crispy, well done and then some more" smell so familiar to all. This motor was better sealed than the hermetic avionics i worked on, those you could smell they were crispy when they came in, this one nothing.
Pretty small motor inside the case, well made with decent bearings, decent brushes and skimped on the windings and core though, could have been thicker wire and more core and it would still have fitted into the magnetics, as there is about 1cm top and bottom of the magnet that is not covered by the core stampings. 37W motor, made in China by Linx, and the replacement is a different manufacturer, but runs a lot quieter.
