I have a 3 standard and have replaced the engines after having used prop guards that had screw that were to long, the new motors have been hooked up and set in place and for some reason are still not working! Anyone have any ideas ?
Phantom 3 standard engines
- Thread starter josh_hhall
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Any ESC errors? Perhaps your main board was damaged as well.
Did the prior screws in the engines....lock the motors UP. !.Humhhhh if so your might have fryed the esc (electronic speed control) because it tried to energize the motors with its power and burnt them up trying see that system has no fuses ! well be patient theirs gals and guys smarter then me and im sure they will ask more questions and dig deeper on your repair....and hope that you took pictures of the soldered wires before you removed them and after you replaced them and can post them here ! ok with take it :
Hopefully you terminated the new motor connections at the centre board solder pads.
Cutting and splicing the fly leads is a dodgy way to approach it- you are creating a headache for yourself. The fly leads are simply the ends of the magnet wire used to wind the field coils. Each strand is individually insulated. You would have to remove the insulation from each strand prior to soldering.
Cutting and splicing the fly leads is a dodgy way to approach it- you are creating a headache for yourself. The fly leads are simply the ends of the magnet wire used to wind the field coils. Each strand is individually insulated. You would have to remove the insulation from each strand prior to soldering.
"Wings" i have a great wonderful Idea : why dont you take the time to make a short informative video or even a set of process pictures of how to remove / clean the enamel off the tiny tiny thin wires with out nicking them and re solder the motors wires inside and add a neat piece of heat shrink tubing to them on the Phantom drone ....I'm very sure many could sure benefit from it especially all the home repair drone fellas "Cheers" !
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Because it’s a bad idea, not something I would recommend doing. My advice is to perform the terminations at the solder pads on the main board or find someone to do it. It’s quicker, cheaper and more reliable.
Thats a tricky process as toooo much heat with lift the copper foil off the board and a novice drone repairman would really be in a fine mess ! Cheers Wings *..........that repairs best left to a knowledgeable person then with a proper solder iron too Not a 180 watt iron !
Actually it’s an easy solder job- if the pads and wires are generously tinned you just sweat the connections, just enough heat to get the joint to flow nicely. The pads are pretty robust. It’s a heavy track in that area. A bit of silicone or whatever you have handy to provide mechanical strength and all will be good.
"With".how many amps " at max ".. do them motors use per One motor ?...and it all has to pass thru them tiny wires and moror windings good thing they are ventilated eh !
Not a huge amount of current. On a P3 if you fly for 18min to 10% remaining capacity and assume all power is consumed by the motors (which obviously it can’t be) it’s about 3.3A continuous for each motor. That’s only 280ma/field winding- there are four coils/phase. Peak current would be significantly less than twice average.
They will find you (display an error in the GO app)- how did you connect the wires for the new motors?
