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20 after switching to Betaflight 2.8 from Cleanflight on my Sparrow Racing Quad I decided to take it out for a late night spin in a nice parking garage that's well lit with about 25 foot high ceilings. the first pack flew just fine. so when I went to switch packs and the motors beeped up, for some reason one of my motors started smoking really bad, then went to my ESC. so I unplugged the one bad esc and motor, and the other 3 works just fine. i checked all the solder joints and connections and nothing shorted. the only thing I can think of is could it be because I changed my looptime from 1200 to 500? I'm running a SP Racing F3 Acro, DYS XM20 ESC, Tiger 2206-2000KV T-Motors.
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139 it happened on the ground when the motors weren't spinning?
I doubt it to be the looptime. I think it could be the motor screws touching motor windings?
Did you feel the temperature of that motor that went smoking after the flight?
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4 I think if your hardware can't handle the loop time you'd have desync problems. Faster loop times will let more noise into your gyro which could cause more heat while your flying. But it happened when changing out batteries... That should like a short.
Am I mistaken? But isn't the default 2khz for 2.8 anyway.
Either way its a bummer
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17 09-Jun-2016, 11:37 AM (This post was last modified: 09-Jun-2016, 11:38 AM by AndreyM.) You see that one phase has melted insulation, right?
Since you've taken it apart, it should be pretty easy for you to rewind that specific phase and get the motor up and running.
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