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I ran your vibration test on my PS4 controller and with strong Rumble Test, only the left side really shakes. The right side feels like only a light buzz. Is the right motor broken? I want to buy a replacement motor if so. The controller is about 4 years old.
Probably not. The DualShock 4 uses two different motors on purpose: a heavy, strong one on the left and a light, fast one on the right. Test each motor on its own at full strength before deciding one is dead.
What you describe is very likely the design rather than a fault. Like most dual-rumble controllers, the DualShock 4 has two motors with different jobs. The left one spins a heavier weight and produces the deep, strong rumble. The right one spins a lighter weight and produces a higher, buzzier vibration. With both at full power, the left dominates what you feel and the right can seem weak.
Browsers drive these two separately. The vibration test sends a strong magnitude to the heavy motor and a weak magnitude to the light one, which is how the Gamepad API describes them. So the useful check is to run each one alone.
Set strong to zero and weak to full. A healthy right motor gives a clear, fast buzz you can feel through the right grip. Then swap: strong full, weak zero. The left should give a deep shake.
Signs of a genuinely failing motor look different: no movement at all, a grinding or rattling noise, a motor that only starts after a tap, or one that cuts out after a second or two. Those point to a worn motor, a loose weight or a broken solder joint.
At four years old a tired right motor is possible, so the isolated test is worth doing before ordering parts. If it does fail, the motors can be replaced, though on a DualShock 4 they are soldered to the board.
Tested on: Applies to DualShock 4 CUH-ZCT1 and CUH-ZCT2 over USB on Windows 11 with Chrome or Edge. Strong and weak magnitudes per the dual-rumble effect in MDN's GamepadHapticActuator documentation.
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Camila works on vibration and haptics, with a background in audio and signal work that transfers directly: a rumble motor is a frequency-and-amplitude problem, and the difference between a weak motor, a flat waveform and a browser that is not sending anything is audible and measurable before it is visible. She tests both motors independently, the DualSense haptic layer and the adaptive triggers, across the connections that support them and the ones that silently do not. On Gamepad Tester she owns the vibration test and the rumble faults topic.
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