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    Quote Originally Posted by manshands View Post
    It was really long and heated up very much after lifting the machine.
    Unfortunately, I did not measure the current consumption at load, the engine power is 20 watts.
    Thank you very much for recommending the KSV 5035 engine, I will try to find it and it will participate in my experiments.
    Yup - short, coarse cable is the way to go if you want some work done at the motor end, rather than just a cable heater.

    Is the wiper motor rated at only 20W? Are you sure? It should be at least 100W in continous duty -
    then it can be (temporarily!) be overloaded some 300% without ill effects.

    I doubt you'll find any Ankarsrum geared motor over at your place -
    best and cheapest bet (as always!) is to go to a scrap yard
    and get any biggie 24 V wiper motor from a full-size truck or bus.
    Bring at least an ohm-meter for checking it, better still is a small 12 V SLA battery in your rucksack.

    Good luck and keep up the good work!

    Cheers

    Johan

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