I know why my 10xl burnt up.

[rootar]

the picture is how it sat mounted in the 8xb, and the second picture show the culprit of my troubles , guess they got rubbed bare and were shorting across the chassis sucks but atleast i know to double insulate my motor wires from now on and dont let them sit on the chassis or anything else.

only got about 2 hours before this happened.


my Neu 1515 2.5d will be here tomorrow to replace this.

[What's_nitro?]

Are you sure it's the motor that is burnt up? If the motor shorts out externally, it tends to affect the ESC.

[magman]

That sucks..seems someone else had a trying day other than me...sorry to see your blown motor.

[BrianG]

That sucks. Hopefully the ESC is ok. Actually, the motor is probably still ok, just a bit of re-shrinkwrapping might be all that's needed.

Whenever I mount my motor, I always think about what the wire could possibly contact. Since they tend to bounce a lot (which isn't good for their longevity since they will eventually break), I like to make some sort of arm to support them. A couple examples:





And to prevent the wires from wearing against the bare arm metal, I either wrap the metal in heatshrink (Revo) or use a bit of foam (Hyper8). You can't see it in the pics, but the Revo even has a little support arm mounted to the rocker post.

[rootar]

nice idea there BG, the controller is fine (tested it on 3s in the slash to make sure) but the motor has seen 260* so im pretty sure she is burnt lol, there is ZERO resistance when turning the shaft it will actually freespin for 3-4 seconds if you flick it with your fingers.

besides its too late the 1515 from mike will be here tomorrow, i dont think ill race it tomorrow night may run practice to test but id like to test it out really well before trying to do another 20minute main, i cant afford to mess anything else up since the Neu broke my r/c fund for a month or more.

[magman]

Brian that is a great idea, I will add that to my to do list this weekend!

[BrianG]

Well, at least keep the rotor. Even somewhat weakened, it should still make one heck of a refrigerator magnet.

Every once in a while, someone posts a request for one of the brass/bronze spacer thingies, so you may want to hold onto those too.

[What's_nitro?]

Maybe you could try to re-magnetize the rotor? I think that would be a fun little project.