I've probably had 40-50 Legacy steamers through with the Canon motor, and three of them were for shorted motors. So, I'd say my "sample of one" is running in the 6-7% failure range of repairs coming in. I've had a ton of upgrades and repairs with Pittman motors, way more than Canon, and I've seen one failure, and that appeared to be that the motor was abused, not that it failed on it's own. The drivers were cooked, I suspect the motor was stalled and just sat there cooking. On the good side, a friend of mine screwed up the brushes in a Pittman, and the brush assembly was fine in mine, so I was able to fix his motor.
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