Quadcopter motor twitching. What next? | BAD MOTOR OR ESC TROUBLESHOOTING GUIDE
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0:00 – Props off for safety!
0:47 – What’s the symptom of a bad ESC or motor?
1:27 – Why the motor and ESC but not the FC?
2:26 – A “dragging” motor is not necessarily bad
3:41 – Start with a physical inspection of the motor
7:35 – You need to have this tool to protect your equipment!
8:44 – Starting to discuss ESC startup beeps but then…
– How to find the short circuit in your quadcopter.
11:19 – Motor construction, and how it relates to how motors fail
13:44 – Additional tests to see if motor or ESC is bad
– How to tell if your ESC is bad.
14:37 – Next step: swap the motor with a good motor and see if it spins
15:33 – How to interpret ESC startup beeps for troubleshooting
21:22 – How to tell and what to do if your FC is damaged
– How to use resource remapping to work around a bad motor output.
26:22 – Can you really build a whole quadcopter with no soldering and not computer?
– Watch Ken Heron build a quadcopter with NO SOLDERING
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