Ferris wheel motor dead: replacement motor assembly, and check rotation direction
If the Ferris wheel's geared motor fails, the motor assembly is sold as a replacement part. One owner fitted a substitute motor from another machine using the original drive cog; it turned the wrong way, and since it is an AC motor, swapping its wires did not reverse it. Re-routing the drive belt round an extra pulley made the wheel turn the right way.
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