Brushed Motor Lifespan

bbodnyk

bbodnyk

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I built my own mini-quad a while ago; see http://quadcopterforum.com/threads/3d-printed-mini-quad.5657/

I'm using the stock motors from a Hubsan X4 107C/D and wanted to see how long they would last. Since then I've been faithfully recording for each flight the date, time of day, air temp, battery used, flight time and comments as necessary.

My conclusion so far is these fairly inexpensive brushed motors will last fairly long if you don't stress them; i.e. allow them to run hot.

I couldn't upload the Excel spreadsheet so exported it to a txt file.
 

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Jackson said:
They make them pretty small.
http://www.aliexpress.com/item/2pcs...-motor-toy-motor-airplane-RC/32260362572.html

http://micro-motor-warehouse.com/collections/all
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I've seen those motors at the micro-motor-warehouse. When my current motors eventually fail I was thinking of trying them out. Interestingly the description of their CL-0820-17 motors states a lifetime rating of 5-6 hours; I'm almost at twice that with my stock Hubsan motors though the 5-6 hours could be continuous operation while my use is intermittent. The max thrust of 40g could be useful though. I wonder what the max thrust of the standard Hubsan motors are?
 
Alas, after 168 flights with a cumulative flight time of 18 hours 41 minutes I accidentally burned one of my stock Hubsan motors up. I crashed and thought I had the throttle lowered all the way but it wasn't.

Regardless I've proved to myself at least that these ~$3 motors will last quite a long time!
 
bbodnyk said:
Alas, after 168 flights with a cumulative flight time of 18 hours 41 minutes I accidentally burned one of my stock Hubsan motors up. I crashed and thought I had the throttle lowered all the way but it wasn't.

Regardless I've proved to myself at least that these ~$3 motors will last quite a long time!
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Yes haha, they do break surprisingly easy, but so will anything if you abuse it.
 
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