I took a closer look, and it does appear to be a sealed
unit, first of all. Secondly, I couldn't find any obvious source of the problem, unless something went seriously wrong within the motor. The only other possible culprit I see is an odd peanut-butter looking substance that is smeared on the side of one of the gears and on some of the bearings; it's hardened, but slightly sticky. I'm wondering if it was a lubricant of some sort in a past life. I may try picking some of that stuff off with a small screwdriver, but other than that it looks like I'm down to a new motor, which is not really cheap unless I get a used one. There are some motors of the same brand and type on ebay right now but they're 8 RPM instead of 6 RPM, though I suppose that would work.
I actually sort of have an interesting plan with this thing...since it requires a
manual action to make it
advance one color, I was thinking of seeing if I could use a time delay
relay I have sitting around and calibrate it just right so that one could press a
button, and the
relay would activate the motor just long to change by one color space. This is only because I can't seem to stop myself from inventing projects. My last one was sorting out all of our lighting inventory. I managed to reassemble one or two Kliegl 1355s from parts we had laying around, so we have 5 now, not counting the 4 I have at home that were "disposed of". We also have like 20 century units of some unknown type, and 60 source 4s, which actually kind of surprised me. Especially since we have like a million
ERS instruments of various types, but only like 20 fresnels. But I digress...
Does anyone by chance have a datasheet or
manual on this thing? I looked on the Kliegl site but I didn't see one...I'm just curious what they had to say about it.
-Dan