Yo.
New to drones.
Building an FPV HK Thorax.
Going to need some help!
As you can see I bought 6 motors with the same rotation. Doh!

Hi Juke,

welcome to the crazy forum, post your questions in the respective forums and someone always finds a solution (not always the one you want )

Yo, welcome. You can make your motors spin the other way

Hey Juke, welcome to the forum, you can set motor direction in BetaFlight. Pretty sure I have read somewhere that you can swap any 2 motor wires to reverse the direction too?

Thanks for the replies.
I thought reversing motor direction might incite carnage as the motor shafts are threaded for one direction. I'll start a build thread..
Thanks for the welcomes.
Happy holidays!

A lot of motors have been coming with only CW thread for a while, it can be a PITA to find a CCW thread lock-nut at a hardware store!

(24-Nov-2017, 04:35 AM)JukeJoint Wrote: Thanks for the replies.
I thought reversing motor direction might incite carnage as the motor shafts are threaded for one direction. I'll start a build thread..
Thanks for the welcomes.
Happy holidays!

I only use CW motors if I can. As long as you secure the propellers with nylock nuts, the threading direction is not a problem. Of course, if you don't use nylock nuts, the anti-clockwise motors will unscrew the nuts in flight.

Reversing motor direction is done in either the ESC firmware settings, or by swapping any two motor wires.

From your picture, all your propellers are CCW propellers, so you need to get some CW propellers and nylock nuts for the motor shafts.

Hey welcome
by the way there is nearly always a post for every FPV related topic on my blog
https://oscarliang.com/propeller-shaft-a...ts-cw-ccw/

Welcome to IntoFPV Juke

I hope you enjoy it here... and as you are already seeing the community is eager to help unfortunately unseen already beat me to the thing I was going to point out

(24-Nov-2017, 10:07 AM)unseen Wrote: Reversing motor direction is done in either the ESC firmware settings, or by swapping any two motor wires.

I've had to do this with both of my builds. I also, like unseen only use CW threaded motors. Not on purpose, just because the motors I've bought have both come in packs of 4 with all CW threads.

If your ESCs are BLHeli then reversing them is one of the easiest configurations to do. In fact the toughest part for me has been figuring out which of my motors needed to be reversed sometimes. Once you have that it's just a matter of reading the set up in the configurator, hitting a few drop downs, then writing the new set up back to the ESCs.

(24-Nov-2017, 12:48 PM)Carl.Vegas Wrote: In fact the toughest part for me has been figuring out which of my motors needed to be reversed sometimes.

All I do is get a bit of thick paper or card, about 1" long. Make a hole in one end so that it can fit over the motor shaft. Put the paper on the motor and spin it up in the motors tab in the configurator.

The paper makes it easy to see which direction the motor spins and all you have to remember is that the rear, starboard motor (number one in Cleanflight/Betaflight/iNav ordering) is supposed to spin clockwise. The directions of the other three are easy to infer.

Good idea that is. I've started a build thread in the Beginner questions section. Figured it was probably the best place for it. Is there a section for build threads?

Build here:

http://intofpv.com/t-first-venture-into-...lectronics