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I always like to post interesting and first time occurrences with customer equipment. Here is a dual ESC failure/fire. Anyone have similar?
ESC V2.1
ESC V2.1
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I always like to post interesting and first time occurrences with customer equipment. Here is a dual ESC failure/fire. Anyone have similar?
ESC V2.1
Does dji twist the motor leads like that now?
The wires twisted when the motor mount melted.
I understand you can freely turn the motors now, but when the damage occurred what was going on and were the props kept from turning rhen. More details are needed. Don't think this would happen from just sitting still. Something had to put a strain on the motors for them to heat up and melt.
It would seem the motors stalled, heated up, melted plastic at motor mounts, then the ESCs fried.
The great majority of ESC failures I have heard about have been caused by prop obstruction. My hypothsis: I'm seeing this one hanging in a tree for an extended period with the props tangled in the branches. The ESCs fed the motors max output power, thus heating the motors to the plastic melting point. the motors, now free of the Phantom, rotate on their own, twisting the wires. The ESCS continue to supply max power until they blow. Probably very early in the flight; the battery pack had plenty of juice to do the deed.
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