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The lock was fine. The Lockitron's motor apparently would not pass a certain amount of rotation if the batteries died mid-rotation and no amount of force I coul
by mikehmayer 12y ago
The lock was fine. The Lockitron's motor apparently would not pass a certain amount of rotation if the batteries died mid-rotation and no amount of force I could exert would open the door. I bent the key pretty good and I had to stop as soon as I noticed that happening.
- mikeash 12y agoI was thinking that the "manual override" feature of the lock was simply a matter of being able to overpower the powered-off motor by hand. I gather from the other comments that it's actually going through some fairly steep reduction gearing that you can't overpower, and that the gearing is just disengaged from the lock mechanism when not in use. Is that about right?