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There's 2 different motors, and they run much diff. tempratures apperently. The Baldor I have is warm, but never hot. There's another motor they have that doesn't have cooling fins around it, forget who makes them, but that one apperently runs hot.
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I have the larger Baldor motor and it warm but never hot.
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All three of mine put out different amounts of heat, one is like yours, a little too hot to touch for very long another I could hold onto all day long, it warm but not hot and the third falls in between.
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Interesting how it's so variable. Robb, are all 3 mounted similarly in terms of the inlet side plumbing? I use 2" plumbing on the inlet side, and this is huge .. they say you can step it down to 1-1/2" without consequence and I've seen this, so I would have thought that the 2" compensates for the one 90 degree bend I have right at the bulkhead. But then I do have a strainer on the bulkhead inside the sump. Maybe I should try removing this and see if I notice a difference.
I think mine is a Baldor motor. It has a fan on the end, I thought the AO motors were fan-less. But what's weird is that the motor core is much smaller than other Dart pumps I've seen that have fans. So it seems there are more than just 2 options out there for the same pump model.. I tried putting a 4" box fan on the floor blowing laterally onto the pump to see if that would cool it off, it actually didn't, so I took it off. Might as well save a few watts on electricity if it's not doing anything.
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None of mine are the ones with the Baldor Motors.
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Well, aren't I observant. Looking at the pump last night I noticed it said "AO Smith" on it. Sooooo .. I guess that sort of explains that. For what it's worth, it has a fan though. I keep reading that AO motors don't have the fans and it's the Baldor motors that do. Well, I guess the AO motors do have fans - they just don't do much..
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