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Did I fry my 1/18 mod motor?

Old 11-08-2008, 10:04 PM
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so i have an orion baja 1/18 motor, and today I connected the negative wire to the wrong post, and when i fired it up the motor almost immediately began smoking, and now it smokes even when connected correctly. Did i permanently fry the motor or is it fixable? what should i look at when i take it apart? thanks!
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Old 11-08-2008, 10:22 PM
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Smoke is ALWAYS a bad sign. Reversing the leads should just make the motor run in reverse though, it shouldn't cook it like you're describing. If it smokes everytime you run it I'd probly call it dead and move on. You could take it apart and see if anything looks obviously wrong but it sounds like somethings probably shorting inside.
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Old 11-08-2008, 10:40 PM
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Originally Posted by tdw
so i have an orion baja 1/18 motor, and today I connected the negative wire to the wrong post, and when i fired it up the motor almost immediately began smoking, and now it smokes even when connected correctly. Did i permanently fry the motor or is it fixable? what should i look at when i take it apart? thanks!
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You can call that fried,just get a new motor!!!
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Old 11-09-2008, 12:32 AM
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leads weren't reversed. postive was on the correct post, but the negative was on the one adjacent to it (not opposite). The post had nothing connected to it and it ran fine when i tested it (just a short blip of the throttle), but then when i ran it longer it smoked. sucks cuz this was basically a brand new 35$ motor.
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If you just connected them to the same side, you probably didn't hurt the motor, but rather the ESC...
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Originally Posted by tazeat
If you just connected them to the same side, you probably didn't hurt the motor, but rather the ESC...
sounds like the esc got fried..
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smoke comes out once, motor's done
either sooner or later
sorry
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