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    Motors and what actually kills them

    Bearings, capacitors and windings fail in distinguishable ways, and two of the three are cheap.

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    Bearings, capacitors and windings fail in distinguishable ways, and two of the three are cheap. It runs to roughly 0 words, and it is one of 28 in this course.

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