I got a pack of 10 micro stepper motors off ebay a while back, they were surplus camera focus motors.
Eventually I had a use for one, in a aircraft instrument I'm adapting, so I pulled one out wired it up to a microcontroller running a microstep routine, worked fine, pulled another out, dead and another dead, and another dead, 3 out of the 10 work.
I'm getting open circuit on one of the wingdings, not always the same one.
So I'm thinking that these were probably a scrapped batch that fell...
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