Motor and controller problem

[artieray]

Hi Guys: I 'm a new guy on the AIRFOILZ block. I am also new to RC flying. I didn't know didly-squat about RC flying until Nov. 2006. Thats when I decieded to fill a childhood dream of mine to fly these mistical machines. First thing I did was to get the G3.5 sim. I hammered at that all winter long to the point where I was obsessed by it .Thats when I made my mine up to buy the real deal. I can't really say why I choose AIRFOILZ. [ I think I did a search on the best foamie and AIRFOILZ and some other snake plane came up and after reading all the fourms on both and reading about Pauls great customer service I went with AIRFOILZ].Well I got one[ Yak 54] and started reading the forums and manual, also watching the videos a number of times. The build went good up to the point of hooking the Hacker motor up to the Hacker controller. The motor has 3 black leads that comes from it and goes to the controller and the controller has 3 black leads that the motor plugs into. My question is what lead plugs into what lead. Most of the time wires are color coded and plug into their respective color but on my Hacker 20 motor and X-Pro controller all the leads are black. I don't want to take a chance and burn out my controller so I'm asking for help. I couldn't have made it this far without you guys and I woud like to thank you all for that.

[king160woody]

It doesn't matter which ones connect to which, just plug any of them and see if the motor direction runs backwards or the correct way. If it's backwards, no big deal, just switch any 2 wires and you will be good to go. :D

[artieray]

That sounds simple enough. Thanks for the help king160woody.

[king160woody]

=) No problem!

[rcnxs]

It doesn't matter which ones connect to which, just plug any of them and see if the motor direction runs backwards or the correct way. If it's backwards, no big deal, just switch any 2 wires and you will be good to go. :D

and I might add to woodys good info, as a safety reminder always do the checks with out the prop on, not only may the direction be wrong, if you haven't got the throttle going the right direction may start up wide open...not good, don't ask me how I know...lol...good luck and welcome to the airfoilz family!

[Vintauri]

and I might add to woodys good info, as a safety reminder always do the checks with out the prop on, not only may the direction be wrong, if you haven't got the throttle going the right direction may start up wide open...not good, don't ask me how I know...lol...good luck and welcome to the airfoilz family!

This is good advise but don't run the motor with no load for too long. It is not good for it. Also most newer ESC's have an arming feature that will not allow them to "arm" unless it is set to throttle off. Some take it a step farther and require you to arm them by going from low to high throttle and back again. I am not familiar with Hacker ESC's so I can't tell you what they do exactly but the Castle ESC's wont arm untill they are set to throttle off.

I use this to my advantage and always put the stick to mid throttle when plugging in the battery so the motor can't spin up from a bumped throttle stick. I only arm it when I'm ready to take off.

Good luck and you'll enjoy the plane both in how well it flies and how much of a beating it can take.

Steve