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I test my motors without a load and have never smoked one. While I agree its not a good idea to do that I dont see how a 10 second test could have let the smoke out like that. I think those rules only apply to the sensored motors that novak puts out as they have different loaded and unloaded rpm numbers, but the sensorless stuff should have the same RPM loaded or unloaded. No load running amps are also really low, in the 5 amp or less range when I test them.