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08-13-2008, 01:20 PM
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QUick Question...
Several yeas ago I swapped my stock Gen1 Motor for a Spinbush motor. While doing so I removed a small, disc-shaped module from the motor can which looked like a capacitor. Being young I figured "who cares, it'll be faster".
I am rewiring my Gen1, and putting in a new Spinbrush motor (burnt the brushes on the last one years ago). I have a cylinder style cap on it currently, do I need to buy another disc-shapped .4 or .1 cap in order for this motor to run? Why did the brushes burn last time? Could it have been due to the additional battery pack I wired in? I am confused and dont want to make the same mistake I did four years ago.
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08-13-2008, 01:21 PM
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The cylinder capacitor you have on will do the same job as the pancaked shape ones.
How many cells were you running? Any additional voltage will of course shorten a motor's life. But, brushes are cheap and a plenty to replace.
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08-13-2008, 01:29 PM
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I was running 6 AAA, but I am still a virgin to the wiring schematic, so I may have run the additional pair in series or parallel. Not sure, it was years ago.
Update: I found a diagram at http://support.radioshack.com/doc/600/rec600-xmods.pdf , so rewiring should be breeze.
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08-13-2008, 01:51 PM
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6 in series is the proper way and the boards and motors typically take it pretty well.
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skin hubcaps and all leather cow interior and big brown baby seal eyes for headlights. Yeah! And I'm gonna drive around in that baby at 115 miles an hour, getting 1 mile per gallon. I may be king of the idiots, but my kingdom is vast and my subjects are everywhere
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08-13-2008, 06:52 PM
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alk.
No longer running 6. Back to 4, rewiring it with 18G wires, hardwiring the motor, and using a Spin Brush motor.
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