Phew, that makes a lot more sense. I thought it permanently locked them
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cmnybo@discuss.tchncs.de 10 months agoThey get disabled for 5 minutes, probably to give the motors time to cool down.
SuperSpruce@lemmy.zip 10 months ago
Gestrid@lemmy.ca 10 months ago
If the motors need to cool down, they need to rethink their motors.
barsoap@lemm.ee 10 months ago
Motors get hot and it’s quite reasonable to not include tons of cooling just so that you can adjust your seat for hours on end.
That said the implementation is still stupid as time isn’t the right measure to judge motor temperature, motor temperature is. One thermocouple, basically a calibrated resistor, which the motors probably already have. Which would also take care of differing environmental temperatures as obviously the motors are worse at shedding heat when it’s scorching hot in the car.
piecat@lemmy.world 10 months ago
You don’t add cooling, you size the motors to have enough thermal mass and mount them to metal chassis.
barsoap@lemm.ee 10 months ago
Potatoe Potatoh. Point is you size the overall system for quick adjustments, not continuous use. If you can get by with less weight and cost then you do as continuous use does not even begin to appear in the requirements sheet.
psud@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Rethink a motor designed to be used for 5 mins initially then occasionally in future? It’s fine for the design purpose. It’s even fine for the mode where it operates every time you get in the car (where it waits in fully back position, and moves forward when you operate a control)
Why should they think it to let it be used as a fidget toy?