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Showerthought: A chat with an old timer at the supply house in Spokane changed how I check door locks.
He told me about a call he got last year where a 1998 Dover Miconic's door lock passed the continuity test but still failed under load, causing a nuisance stop. He said, 'Don't just check for a circuit, check for voltage drop under the actual lock coil load.' I'd never thought to load-test them like that before. Has anyone else run into this on older Miconic setups?
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victor_carter513h ago
Spot on, that's how most things fail.
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paul_stone291h agoTop Commenter
Read a book that said the same thing.
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