After cooking the brush springs on my stock motor, then blowing the control board I decided to just stop faffing and buy a new motor and controller. Ended up with a 110st-5030 ac servo motor and controller. Looks a little overkill but it's lovely and smooth, silent and more torque than I can shake a stick at!
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