Went to the field this morning and thought I would get one quick flight before the winds came up. The field was very soggy as they had a lot of rain (this is a county park soccer field, well groomed). Thought I found a reasonably firm spot to take off from, not so good. As the ship started to roll and pick up speed the wheels started to drag in the wet soft grass and it nosed over. The motor tried to keep going but finally (after about 2 -4 seconds) stop on I assume high amps.
Nothing was damage so I shut it down waited a minute and figured I'd re-fire and hall it off the ground this time. Flip the on switch, timer beeps, I am at the handle waiting for it to spin up. Motor starts to spin then kinda stops, then a little spurt, then nothing. At this point I flip the off switch and call it a day. At the car I remove the battery, it is warm not hot, but then I sniff a bit and my old Air Force electronics training tells me something is not good. Kinda had a smell of toasted something.
OK now I need to check out what has the problem. The motor turns but not a free as it use to, still tooths but won't spin free very much if you flip it. Don't know what that could be. I need to get down to the ESC and maybe test it with another motor to see if there is a problem. Any ideas how to check further?
Going forward I need to change all my ESC settings on high amp out to "sensitive" I had them all set for "normal". Any other setting that should be looked at to protect the ESC (I use Castle Creation ESC's)
Best, DennisT