Upgrading from hobby motors to slightly more resilient ones...

Robotics
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Hello!

I made this Adafruit lab shaker as a possible project for my students that are interested in biofabrication but not as much toe “bio” part of it. :slight_smile: https://learn.adafruit.com/crickit-lab-shaker

The motors keep burning out, possibly due to me needing to run the 4-6 hours a day. Might you have a suggestion for motors that can be run by an Arduino or a raspberry pi that have a little more power and, hopefully, metal cogs? The current ones are a 1:48 gear ratio. I found these on your site, might they or something else work? https://www.sparkfun.com/products/15277

I am trying to keep the prices as low as I can so public schools and after school clubs can afford to buy them for their students. Thanks very much, in advance!

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We don’t carry very many motors, but I would suggest the one you linked and/or this one https://www.sparkfun.com/products/12205 and then test them each to see what their real-world life expectancy might be and go from there

You could also look into switching to a stepper motor design https://www.sparkfun.com/search/results?term=stepper that may have a longer runtime

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I’d look into one of these:

https://www.servocity.com/303-rpm-gear-motor/