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Old November 22nd, 2012, 19:37   #25
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So I just tried this with distilled water and at first it seemed to work with a small 9v battery, then I stepped things up with my 7.4 lipo and my motor began shredding the brushes down to nothing.

This was with a 5+ year old VFC motor which I am replacing anyway.

I'll have a video up by tomorrow, hopefully. I have a hypothesis of what happened but maybe others have more experience with this.
Your com was worn down a lot, and since the water removed the dust from the brushes while turning, it literally grinded them to nothing.

Running the motor on anything over 3V was not a good idea from the start...
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