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    Can you swap electric motor thermal protection devices?

    The motor is 1/7 horsepower and it is cooled by a high velocity, 120Vac Boxer Fan. It is turning a belt that turns a shaft with an offset of 3mm at the opposite end. I don't know the x axis specs of the 3 rubber shock mounts to try to figure out the load on the rig. The motor is definitely not...
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    Can you swap electric motor thermal protection devices?

    Ahhh! So, I take it that these auto-reset thermal fuses - or "Klixons" - are VERY different from the one shots in that they might not have any, or negligible, series resistance? THAT really changes things. I wish like heck I could find the original TP and measure its resistance - at least at...
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    Can you swap electric motor thermal protection devices?

    Hi, all! Ok, here's my problem. I have an electric motor - a Dayton 10J152, 1/7hp - that has a one-shot thermal protection fuse in it. I hate these! So, I took an automatic reset one from another Dayton motor I have (both motors rated at 40deg C) and swapped it in place of the one-shot...

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