So I just installed an Orion Vortex Experience 2 sensorless brushless motor and ESC into my RC10, and I want to make sure I connect the three motor wires correctly.
All three wires on both the motor and ESC are black and have no color coding or writing on them. This is all the instructions say:
- Connect the three motor wires from the motor to the ESC
Is there a certain way to connect these wires? Or if it runs in reverse, which two would I switch?
If it runs in reverse you can switch any two of the wires until it goes forward. You won't harm the motor in any way. Or you can drive in reverse really fast.
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I was wondering the same thing since im a brushless noob also.Looks like they woulda labeled the dang things with the prices they charge for the crap.DON
The instructions on most brushless, sensorless motors I've seen state to simply reverse any two wires to reverse motor direction.
What sucks is that you end up with a wonky-looking wiring setup! The 2 BL setups I've done so far, NEITHER of them spun in the correct direction when I color-matched the wires to the ESC. D'oh!
This happened on one of my Castles too. Just swapped 2 wires and it worked fine, but the wires don't match now. I think, I could just plug the esc into the castle link and tell it to reverse rotation if I wanted to fix that, but then if I switch out motors, those would all go in reverse.
Have you guys tried disconnecting them and re-connecting them? I just wonder if the motor is in a slightly different positon one time vs the other if it might run the other way. Just a theory. I doubt it since if that theory were true then the motor could run a different direction with every pull of the trigger. I would still think that these companies would have to have some reason to believe that the correct colors should line up and run in the proper direction. If anyone tries please let me know what happens. I've gone to all Castle, but they all run the right direction with matching colors everytime so I can't test the theory. Just a thought.
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I just bought an outright evil LRP VECTOR X11 3.5 turn (9800kv!!!) brushless motor and plan to run it with my Mamba Max ESC. :twisted:
Just need some help with the wiring...
LRP-Blue,Yellow & Orange
Mamba-Black,Red & White.
My guess would be red...
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Must have been too tired,last night...I got the wiring wrong and the sucker only ran in reverse,so if anyone else wants to do this,the REAL deal is:
ESC red to motor blue.
ESC black to motor orange.
ESC white to motor yellow.
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If I had just seen the + on the end I would have been good. After I saw it I felt like an idiot for coming on here and asking :roll: Now to get it wired up and installed. I've had this Ultima for months and it hasn't had a first run.
Guys, I completely stripped down & rebuilt my main motor. I don't even have a clue what it began life as originally, but it had 14 x 1 marked on the armature, I'm assuming that to be a 14T wind. It was a 4-minute motor I believe.
Anyway, on to my...
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not available anymore, i bought the last of them (according to the president of RPM) and just got them in the mail yesterday. :mrgreen:
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