The number one reason for DC shade motor electronic failure is the Mean time between failures (MTBF) λ of the aluminum electrolytic capacitors inside every motorized blind you install today.
These caps on the motor control PCB are located inside a metal tube, which is also situated secondarily inside another metal tube with only convectional cooling.
When using inefficient-off-the-shelf power supplies, the nominal lifespan of motorized shades is 15 years.
- Our tightly regulated, 6-stage discretely filtered, processor-controlled precision slow-ramp algorithm and ripple current filtering mitigates electrolyte drying and ensures long capacitor lifespan.
- Our ECO-mode reduces the ambient temperature inside the motor by more than 10 °C using the Arrhenius rule & removes voltage across the caps for more than 99.75% of every day!
We are very confident about our extended motor life claims but understand this may be controversial, so we have 3 independent labs and 3 Universities working on replicating our findings.
Intertek in San Antonio TX, Nokomo in Bartonville, TX, and LCS Compliance in Shenzhen, China, and 3 Universities, the University of Texas at Austin, Hong Kong University, and the University of Houston and we will publish these reports on our site once completed.