#(edited) Nut that holds the motor together unscrews the same way the motor turns

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candid plinth
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I recently took my guy ( drone) out for it's first test flight and the motors aren't properly spinning in the right dircetion, i use BF
HELP

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@hallow canopy can you help?

hallow canopy
candid plinth
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thanks man

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coming in clutch

candid plinth
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(edited) Nut that holds the motor together unscrews the same way the motor turns

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gUYS SO I FIXED IT BUT THEN One of my proppellers flew off and i lost the nut, i checked which way the nut unscrews and it's the same way that the mototr is meant to spin

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is this ok and i just have to tighten a lot or is this a problem

hallow canopy
novel wadi
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It's normal, that's why the nuts are locknuts.

hallow canopy
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Oh never mind lol

novel wadi
hallow canopy
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Yeah I haven't bought motors in a while 😭

novel wadi
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Vast majority of manufacturers gave up on having CW/CCW motors

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made buying motors and nuts a nightmare

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Modern motors have very strong shafts (steel or steel-titanium alloy)

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and locknuts

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so you can crank those suckers with anger

hallow canopy
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Nope never mind my motors are all the same thread direction so I don't know why I thought that was still a thing??

hallow canopy
candid plinth
novel wadi
candid plinth
novel wadi
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yeah that would explain it

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red bottoms

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haven't seen that in a loooong ass time

candid plinth
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so is it fine do i just crank out my anger on those chafts

candid plinth
novel wadi
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NOOOOPE

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aluminium shafts

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they will snap

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guess how I know

candid plinth
# novel wadi NOOOOPE

what do i do then, one of them loosened and then m proppeller flew of into the sunset(no but im now going to search for the nut in the dark lmao

candid plinth
novel wadi
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geh, it's been more than half a decade since I last had to think about motor thread direction vs prop direction

candid plinth
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🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️

novel wadi
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hm

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ah, wait, the motors are labelled with the intended spin direction

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not with the thread direction

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EZ

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I just woke up, can you tell?

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soo anyway

candid plinth
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WHAT TF DO I DO???

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sorry

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its like 9 pm lol

novel wadi
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your motors should be like this
A)

CCW    CW
    ^
CW    CCW

B)

CW    CCW
    ^
CCW    CW
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are they like this either of these configurations?

hallow canopy
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It should tell you in the Motors tab what it is currently

novel wadi
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nono

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I mean PHYSICALLY

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since there are two CW motors and two CCW motors

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I want to sanity check which directions the motors are set up for

hallow canopy
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They should be set up for whatever BF thinks it is, no?

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Like it was flying before

novel wadi
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this wasn't flying before..

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the previous post solved the radio binding xD

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and we have no idea

  1. if it was assembled correctly
  2. if what BF thinks matches reality
hallow canopy
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Oh yeah you're right lol
They weren't spinning the right way, then they got updated in BF and then the nut flew off 😭

novel wadi
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and with these motors you can't reverse them since you can't crank down the props so we need to start with the motors

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CW/CCW motors are such a pain 😂

hallow canopy
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I would assume all of them need to be reversed but yeah it's good to just make sure

novel wadi
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well

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we don't know if whoever was assembling the drone didn't assemble it like this

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CCW CW
^
CCW CW

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in which case no amount of reversing would save our bacon 😂

hallow canopy
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Oh god

novel wadi
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so glad I switched to steel shafts in 2019 xD

sullen torrent
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not even nylocks

hallow canopy
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lol yeah they're significantly easier to deal with, assuming you crank down on them hard. I remember my first drone I got I was gifted. Had like a 90 degree fov pointed slightly down, and and old... F1 FC I wanna say. That one definitely had directioned motors lol

sullen torrent
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sold and discontinued

novel wadi
hallow canopy
hallow canopy
sullen torrent
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yeah maybe.

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i kinda wish i never sold my anchint anchient stuff.

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would be fun for the nostalgea

hallow canopy
sullen torrent
# novel wadi they will snap

Been there done that.
I superglued the prop back on for one more flight.
then it lived.
and lived and lived.
now it's had like 8 "final flights" on it.
still on a shelf lol.

candid plinth
novel wadi
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so wait, the motors are on wrong?

candid plinth
novel wadi
candid plinth
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can i fly with the nuts?

novel wadi
candid plinth
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because the thread is made the same way as the way that the motor spins

novel wadi
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You need to set the motors up, in one of the two possible ways
Then you need to configure the motor directions to actually spin that way
And then you need to tell BF which way is used

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Then you need to install props on to match that

candid plinth
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yep so that what im doing

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what about the nuts, cause they have a chance to unscrew when i fly right?

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because the way that the motor spins is the same way that you rotate to unscrew the top nut

novel wadi
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With the correct direction, the motor spin should automatically tighten the nut

candid plinth
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ok so to tighten my nut i turn clockwise and to untighten i turn anticlockwise, my motor spins Anti clock wise

candid plinth
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@novel wadi

novel wadi
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if a motor says CW I would set it up to spin CW

candid plinth
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yeah

novel wadi
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that's all

candid plinth
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but the nut

novel wadi
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I asume that whoever made the motors wasn't stupid

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beside making CW/CCW motors

candid plinth
candid plinth
novel wadi
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I presume that if the motor says CW, its threads are set up so that it will self-tighten the nut when spun CW

candid plinth
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oh wellp, imma go sleep and if it untightens and i lost another nut you'll see me come back here asking what to do

candid plinth
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