Blower Motor scoping and interpretation

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3 months 3 weeks ago #65850 by mark.boggess
Looking at this capture of a blower motor would this be considered a bad motor ? Motor is pulling about 18amp on average and seems to be moving plenty of air . This car had a very dirty cabin filter causing a complaint of inadequate air flow from vents. Replacing filling made a huge difference however I decided to scope it just for my own records . 

would you consider this a motor with a burnt comm segment or a winding issue or is this considered a normal pattern for a blower motor ? 
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3 months 3 weeks ago #65852 by Chad
It's, certainly, not very pretty but, if it works, it works. It's hard to tell a customer that a working motor needs replaced.  However, if the customer had a complaint of intermittent blower operation, I wouldn't hesitate to replace it.  This waveform looks, to me,  like it is on the boarder line of being a blower that could need a good smack to get started, sometimes.

 

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3 months 3 weeks ago #65853 by Tyler
Kinda with Chad on this one. Borderline waveform like that would probably get a recommendation to replace it.

YMM and previous experience would factor in. If I've replaced them previously, it gets recommended. If I've never seen one fail previously, maybe let it go. 
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3 months 3 weeks ago #65855 by mark.boggess
My thoughts exactly, I did have one that had a “dead spot” some time ago and the scope capture was very similar to this . I have a screen shot of that and will post it for reference

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