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Old 21-04-2013
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Originally Posted by Colinevan View Post
How did this happen?

Is it a bad motor?

Gutted for you hope you get a replacement asap.
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Originally Posted by neallewis View Post
Bummer about your motor. does the hobbyking UK warehouse have any stock?

Thanks, got some more things to try today now the wind has gone. I'll arrange to meet you after work sometime if that's ok?
Col - think so. The coils inside turned from nice shiney copper to burnt black. It had done 1 flight (at 3:00am in tesco carpark) without problems. It popped exactly like an ESC does - just started fizzing and smoking. The motor wasn't even running! The KK2 was in safe mode, so no controls from the tx were going to the motors.

Neal - UK warehouse are out of stock and not taking backorders for it. I've ordered 4 more as they're only £6 each + delivery and I needed a few other bits and bobs as well (bits to flash my esc's and update software on the kk2), but the wait is a killer!
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