I know why my 10xl burnt up.
 

the picture is how it sat mounted in the 8xb, and the second picture show the culprit of my troubles :neutral:, guess they got rubbed bare and were shorting across the chassis:tongue: 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.

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

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

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:

http://scriptasylum.com/bl_conversio...s/hyper8_2.jpg

http://scriptasylum.com/bl_conversio...ges/revo_2.jpg

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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