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Re: electric fan question

To: Chris Pappathopoulos <ctpappathopo@students.wisc.edu>,
Subject: Re: electric fan question
From: "Dr. John Faustus" <dr_faustus@pcisys.net>
Date: Mon, 07 Jul 2003 16:48:04 -0600
At 16:52 7/7/2003 -0500, Chris Pappathopoulos wrote:
>My electric cooling fan began blowing fuses. I took it apart and found 
>that each section of the comutator is short circuited together. I believe 
>this shouldn't be like this. Does anybody have any idea how this would 
>have happened and how I could possibly fix it?
>
>Thanks,
>Chris

In the R/C racing world when this happens you simply take an exacto knife 
and run it through the slots between commutator sections.  You should be 
able to scrap it all out.  Be sure to clean the commutator and brushes well 
before you put it back together.

Andy

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