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04.04.2007, 03:46 PM

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Originally Posted by AAngel
I'm not real swift when it comes to some of these things, but I would think that running a motor on a bench will cause the motor to get hot from the sheer rpms that the motor is turning. Since you were running the motor unloaded, I would think that it wasn't drawing nearly the current that it would while in a truck going around a track during a race. This may have, at least partially, accounted for the esc running so cool.
This is true.

Running a motor under load increases current draw...more load, more draw.


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