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Old 14-08-2012
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Question The results...

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Originally Posted by imull View Post
Before you go opening it, try testing it from the outside! You can't always see a blown FET...

http://www.oople.com/forums/showthread.php?t=102949

There are instructions on how to test the FETs in there, any problems drop me a PM
Cheers for the great advice iMull.

So Ive done what you suggested (I think!) and here are the results:

from +ve battery to motor terminals:
- A,B,C terminals all same
- all showing constant +1
- the second the probe is removed from one motor terminal, the readout shot up to between 6.5 and 10.5 and then quickly dropped to 1 again.

from -ve battery to motor terminals:
- A,B,C terminals all the same
- readout is 2.84 across all terminals

The above was all done with the multimeter set to 20K ohms.

I wasnt sure if I was supposed to "drive" the motor from the ESC, so did a round of results with same setup as above except Im pushing the throttle on the transmitter.

Results with transmitter throttle:
+ve battery to motor:
1 showing constant, then drops to about -5 then quickly increase to 0 until throttle back (when the meter readout returned to +1)

-ve battery to motor:
1 then 0.54 when touched with probes. When throttling, this increases quckly to +1.

I dont even pretend to understand whats happening, but I do know that we are looking for differences across the terminals - and the results showed that all terminals (A,B & C) reacted virtually identically that I could tell.

Does that help at all?!
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