mm wrote:


Low voltage will burn out a motor if the motor stalls because the
voltage is too low. In that case, instead of turning the electcity
into motion and some heat, it turns all of the current into heat.
(although I think the current flow lessens because of induced reverse
voltages, or whatever they are called. When the motor is stalled, i
think it doesn't use as much current, but all the current it does use
is turned into heat.)


It took two years of wintertime-only use for the treadmill motor to
quit, and it never stalled in the sense of being on but unable to turn.
It just quit one day. Had been making a squeaking sound for quite some
time before that.

BC