opjose;
awright, I got it. The only reason I know about mosfets and the like are because I constantly blew them on my falcon 40 (heli) I've done lots of soldering; no fine-tuned soldering, but this isn't very complicated so I'm all good I realize that heat shrink doesn't conduct electricity, but since I had the wires from the motor and esc tightly wrapped together, I figured it wouldn't make a difference if I had heat shrink on top of it for insulation.

okay, I just finished soldering all the motors' wires to the esc's wires. For some reason, the motor works perfectly now! Maybe they didn't have a good enough connection before...I don't really know. All the connections were solid when I checked them before, so I honestly haven't the foggiest idea why the motor didn't react before

thanks for all the help everybody, I would've chucked the ESC if I hadn't had help here


-Max