Ecco Evolution Rotator Problem

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Feb 16, 2013
1,014
Idaho
I recently acquired a 54 inch Ecco Evolution lightbar. It has 4 rotators with diamond mirrors in between them to multiply the flashes. When I fired it up only 2 of the 4 rotators wold spin. All 4 of the lights cane on. I removed the motors on the rotators that wouldn’t spin and put power to them and they work. It appears the problem is the 2 rotators that won’t spin may need to be lubricated. You can see from the pictures the motors turn a rubber belt that goes around the outside of base of the rotator. I took the bulb and reflector off but can’t seem to get the round cap off to see why they won’t spin as easy as the other 2. Anyone have any thoughts?
 

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Eric2.0

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Jan 22, 2020
201
East Coast
My ecco mini bar has a dragging rotator and it is brand new. Also it is belt drive like yours. Seems to me Q.C sucks at ecco and this is a trend with their rotators. Total B.S. on a brand new bar.

People have told me it is normal, but it is so blatantly obvious that I have a dragging rotator that I thought maybe ecco made it like that...you know, one slow and one fast to get a different flash effect or something. I'm going to open it up and check that rotator and test the motor against the other one.
 

348

Member
Feb 16, 2013
1,014
Idaho
It’s been almost 2 years since I worked on that bar. If I remember correctly, I was never able to get the rotators to work correctly and had to order some replacement ones.
 
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