i recived a exceed blue ray heli yesterday from nitro planes and powered it up and trimed it out ,i haveflown helis for the last 12 years so i consider myself to be a compenet flyer .i purchased this heli for some one that used to fly and his mode of flying is his throttle stick is reversed to me ,so i down- loaded the software and pluged in the tranismitter and switched on the heli .the heli was sitting on a desk next to the computer i then started to reprograme the tranismitter to his flying style ,i was in the reverse window and i changed a few channelsjust to get a feel of how the programe worked,i had the throttle switch on so that we could watch the movements on screen with out the heli motor turning ,as i clicked on the rudder channel 4, and i think i may have clicked on channel 3 by mistake because when i clicked ok on the computer the heli motor gave a slight jolt, i then i sawsmoke coming out ofmotor, so i quickly pulled the deans plug apart ,butthe damaged had already been done and the motor is dead
i am surprised that just by reversing a channel, even if i reversed the wrong one could have resulted in a complete motor burn failuremy consern is that i do not know what went wrong and i did not first save the original settings before i started ,i am reluctent to just plug in another motor what should i do
where can i get the default settings on the reverse channel set up that it had when i first flew the heli ,as this is where i was at the time of the failure

Rob-Capetown
SouthAfrica

Yes that is quite possible if you reversed the wrong channel.

when you reversed chan 3, I'm sure your throttle is down, this will tell the TX that you want 100% all a suddent and this will cause damage to the motor. For example, I press the gas peddle on my car to full and I turn on the ignition.

When you do test on the radio, you should always unplug the motor from the ESC because this is for your safety too in case you make a mistake and hurt yourself.

what's your order number? I can exchange another motor for you.

John
Nitro Planes

hi sorry for the delay it was a holiday yesterday
the o/n was 571916 i wiil be care full when i power up the heli again
is there any way that i can measure the voltage on the esc with out the motor connected
rob capetown

RMA issued. will replace your motor upon return.

John
Nitro Planes

If you were messing with the T6config program and you had the 3 motor wires plugged in, then I'd say it was your fault.
You should NEVER be messing with channel reversing or any programming on an electric heli w/ the motor plugged in.
If you had the blade holder on and the ESC started to try to turn the head, then that probably over drove the ESC.
I don't see how else you can do what you describe. Only other thing is if you had the blade holders on and when reversing, you then were stalling multiple servos. Once again, it would be your fault for adjusting the heli w/ the blade holder on.

If this was not your first electric brushless motor, then shame on you. If it was, then this was a hard lesson to learn.

If you had the motor disconnected, then ignore my comments and I'd be curious to know how this could happen.