Help with a Plettenberg please!

[ilpufxit]

So I just brought my meter home and tested the motor. No continuity to the case on any wire. All three wires have continuity to each other. I even tried spinning the rotor with the meter on just in case.

This motor will run if you spin it up gradually but the heat build up happens too fast to even try to actually drive it.

I've heard that it can be difficult to get these fixed. Is there any (more) local alternative for repairs?

My connectors are the standard 4mm bullets compatible with MM

[sikeston34m]

Ok, before you do anything else, check those connectors out really good.

I was having cogging issues just like this with a Mamba Max setup. Come to find out, it was arcing inside one of the connectors. I replaced all 3 connectors and it was fixed!

It was on the male side of the connector. I noticed one would slide in.........or unplug very easily. When I looked at it closer, I could see little burnt spots where it had been arcing.

Before I fixed it, it would run the motor. There was alot of cogging though until finally the ESC would thermal.

It's running strong now. Check it out.

[sikeston34m]

Originally Posted by ilpufxit

So I just brought my meter home and tested the motor. No continuity to the case on any wire. All three wires have continuity to each other. I even tried spinning the rotor with the meter on just in case.

This motor will run if you spin it up gradually but the heat build up happens too fast to even try to actually drive it.

I've heard that it can be difficult to get these fixed. Is there any (more) local alternative for repairs?

My connectors are the standard 4mm bullets compatible with MM

No continuity to the case it good!

You will always have continuity between the motor wires. It's a 3 phase winding, so if you don't have continuity between them all, something would be wrong.

Hmmmm........let me know if you find anything with the connectors

I just bought a (slightly) used Plettenburg BigMaxximum motor

Maybe it's for this reason that theother guys decide to sell it

[ilpufxit]

Originally Posted by david lamontagn

Maybe it's for this reason that theother guys decide to sell it

I changed nothing, the problem was pre-existing. You know, this kind of thing really grinds my gears!!!

[lutach]

Do you have any other brushless controller? One that you can set the timing in degrees would do and see if it works with the motor. I had the Plettenberg Extreme running with the MM and it did cog some times, but it worked good.

[ilpufxit]

They seem to fit tightly. The motor came with 5mm Quark style connectors which I removed and replaced with 4mm to match all my other stuff. The cogging didn't change with the motor ends or the esc ends, I've swapped out both now.