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Old 03-04-2010 | 08:37 AM
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Solara
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Originally Posted by Rocking Donkey
How do you "toast" a motor? I always run my motors a little on the conservative side to keep the temps down, but I thought that if the motor did get too hot the thermal cutout would activate? Were you running without this? I'm just worried about killing my motors now

Ben
I was testing the prototype software...toasting motor is part of the plan (or expecting), so we know where is the problem.

Like other mentioned...thermal cut off is for the speedo, not the motor...and beside, I don't use it, nor the lipo voltage cut off...I (myself) don't find that necessary...
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