Olly Malone

Hey there. i have been looking at motors with the built on controllers and i just need to know if your can get the controler off the motor if the motor dies??

Matt Kirsch

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With some careful soldering iron work, yes.

MUSIC PUBLISHER

the graupner mini piper motor comes with its esc soldered directly to motor...it does look like it can be taken off...but im assuming you have to make sure you remount it on another motor that wont draw to many amps..I belive the mini piper motor was a 280 speed..so id imagine you couldnt use the speed controller mounted on that motor on a much more high powwered motor ..

studysession

You have a link to what you are talking about? I have not seen motors with controllers attached before.

U2Steve

Studysession: go search Hobby Lobby's web site for Graupner "PLUS" motors. Graupner makes a Speed 280 and a Speed 400 PLUS motor; both come with the ESC soldered directly onto the motor.

studysession

Cool - what kind of planes do you use them on?

U2Steve

I have a Graupner Terry and an E-flite Ascent that use the 400 PLUS. Just because they take up less space, and those planes have pretty cramped fuses. The only "minus" with these setups is that they come with Graupner battery connectors installed, so a Sermos transplant was needed right out of the box. But I have had no problems at all with them: two seasons on the Ascent, and three on the Terry. The motors are still good, so I can't speak about replacing them, but it's just two solder joints on the motor terminals as far as I can tell. There may be noise capacitors hidden from view, but that's no big deal.