Our team has been using 2 V5 motors on a cascade lift to a lot of success until recently. One of the motors running on the lift completely seized up - it would not allow any rotation in either direction even when unpowered. Before the entire motor seized up, it started getting “stuck” on a regular interval (where it would be very hard to turn the motor, but still possible). Eventually, it stopped turning altogether. After taking the motor off, we opened it and could smell that some of the components on the PCB had burnt out for some reason. The motors themselves were not under a massive amount of strain.
I tried replacing the motor, but it started to do the same thing as its predecessor.
Does anybody know what to do about this? We have a tournament tomorrow and we don’t know what’s causing the problem.
If it helps, the motors are using the green (1:16?) cartridges and we are using PROS for V5. The first motor that was shipped came at the start of the season (it’s broken beyond repair) and we received the second one about 2 weeks ago.