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Overloading a Tortise machine will not burn out the motor as they are designed to be in a stalled state at all times. They only draw about 25ma so small wire work just fine with them. So even if they are fed only 6 volts they will not burn out. They seem to work perfectly down to 8-9 vdc.
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