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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?

Thanks in advance from a brushless n00b.

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.

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.