Eli5 What causes motors to overheat when it’s facing more resistances than it can handle?

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Eli5 What causes motors to overheat when it’s facing more resistances than it can handle?

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The motor windings are designed to allow a certain number of electrons through per unit of time.

Exceed this number and energy will be lost as heat.

Significantly exceed this number and the windings will burn causing irreparable damage.

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