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  1. Sloan83qv

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    #1 Sloan83qv, Mar 31, 2006
    This is strange but I have an electric window that actually goes up too fast....This is not a joke and I would like to slow it down, I would like a suggestion on how I might slightly reduce the voltage to the motor.
     
  2. Rifledriver

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    #2 Rifledriver, Mar 31, 2006
    Not in a Ferrari!

    Say it ain't so.
     
  3. Impactco

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    #3 Impactco, Mar 31, 2006
    Please remove your existing window motor, pack it up and Fedex it to me. I will exchange it for one of my '85 308QV window motors that will meet your requirements. Of the two motors I have, would you prefer excruciatingly slow or moderately slow? No charge!!
     
  4. Fengtau

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    #4 Fengtau, Mar 31, 2006
    Best offer I've ever heard....
     
  5. Glassman

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    #5 Glassman, Mar 31, 2006
    Ive got one that works really slow and one that doesn't work at all.
     
  6. ernie

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    #6 ernie, Mar 31, 2006
    Paul what is the matter with you? A Ferrari window that is fast is a good thing. Please pass on the info as to how you got it to be "too fast".
     
  7. Sloan83qv

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    #7 Sloan83qv, Mar 31, 2006
    I knew this was going to happen but it really is so and I need a fix.
     
  8. chrismorse

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    #8 chrismorse, Mar 31, 2006
    Paul,

    Check with an electronics store or auto electrical repair shop. I don't know the DC equivalent of a variable AC motor controll. They are used on routers, fans all kinds of things. Surely, an electronics shop could find a variable dc motor controll suited for the dc amperage of the window motor. Pull the door panel, install the speed controll unit, adjust to suit, secure it, pop the door panel back on and enjoy the lack of speed??

    hth,
    chris
     
  9. Steve Magnusson

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    #9 Steve Magnusson, Mar 31, 2006
    Are you sure the two motors+gearsets+drums+etc. are identical?

    Is the current draw at "full speed" radically different for the two sides?
     
  10. Sloan83qv

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    #11 spiderseeker, Apr 1, 2006
    Sloan- what car is having this "Problem" ?
     
  12. Sloan83qv

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    #12 Sloan83qv, Apr 1, 2006
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    Alternator and Regulator check out fine...just a pass side window issue.
     
  13. ferrarifixer

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    #13 ferrarifixer, Apr 1, 2006
    FREAK!

    What is the "problem" with it being fast?

    Next we'll hear from 550 owners.. "my car is just too fast, what can I do to slow it down?"!!
     
  14. Gilles27

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    #14 Gilles27, Apr 1, 2006
    LOL. His A/C probably gets the car too cold also.
     
  15. Sloan83qv

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    #15 Sloan83qv, Apr 1, 2006
    That one's easy tell them to aim for a telephone poll.
    It slows Enzo's down in Malibu...should work for 550's
     
  16. DGS

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    #16 DGS, Apr 1, 2006
    What he probably wants is a graduated speed controller: it's probably only too fast at the end, where he's trying to leave a small crack open at the top -- possibly for a battery tender wire.

    A graduated speed controller would run the window full speed most of the traverse, but lower the speed at the limits; near the top and bottom. That would be trickier, using a position sensor to modulate the motor voltage and/or current.

    But Hey; It's an older car. If the windows work at all, you're ahead of the game.

    Look on the bright side:
    If it were British, you'd be using clothespins to hold the plastic window curtains in place. ;)
     
  17. greg328

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    #17 greg328, Apr 1, 2006
    April Fools', right?


    :)
     
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    #18 jungathart, Apr 1, 2006
    "Hi, you don't know me, but I play a starving doctor on TV who is the world's only surgeon doing penile reductions"
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  19. Artvonne

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    #19 Artvonne, Apr 2, 2006
    Hey, strange things can happen. I just took the JEEP down to Key West and back, and the darn thing averaged almost 270 MPG.
     

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