integy motor failure

[bouncyroof]

hey guys, i bought a 55t integy motor for my scx10 a couple months back. i had a buddy of mine put on a deans plug for me and he also ran it at a low speed to break it in. took it out for the first time today and the truck felt slow from the get go. thought it might have been the batteries as i was running batteries i charged over a month ago abd figured they were running low. put in a fully charged lipo and same thing. she was low on power with this battery too. also the motor was smelling pretty bad. i thought maybe it was due to being a new motor it was just burning off some crap or something. it eventually started making a weird noise so i swapped in another motor i had and it woke the truck right up. my buddy checked the brushes and said just visually they look fine, so maybe its the winding or something. i dont know anything about these motors so im not even sure where to start with this. i was hoping that this motor would have performed a little better given what it was worth vs the axial 55t that has been through three trucks including mine and has had a couple years of abuse and still works great.

[89lxmorepower]

Sounds like you got a bunk motor i got a integy 35 turn in mine and its greatlots of power and torque and its been through 20 2s lipo packs at least binded up many times and still going.

[bouncyroof]

thats what im thinking too. i have no problem pulling it apart and seeing if i can rebuild it. hell i may even look at seeing what i can do to improve it in the power department

[spillproof]

Shorted stator will do that. I have a venom 55t with the same issue i think. Tried measuring resistance but its still higher resistance them my 35t motor... But i am measuring wire to wire, and not the commutator itself.

[Abrown83]

I had the same motors in my xr10.

1 was fine... And actually quite impressive.... The other popped a wind 2 hours in. Now in for warranty.

[bouncyroof]

i contacted integy they said to send it in and to include the receipt. i tossed the thing assuming i wouldnt need it, so im gonna send it back with the shops information that i bought it from and hopefully they can still do something for me. and if not ill see what itll cost to upgrade it and go from there. thanks for the help guys

[DudeWalker]

If you have a good relationship with the shop and/or the shop is computerized, you can have a duplicate receipt printed to send in with your warranted item.

EDIT: Actually, I'm sure if you sent it in with just a note, they would look at the motor and send you a new one.

[bouncyroof]

id just be happy with them looking at it and selling me replacement parts if nothing else. ill send a note, ive only ever used this shop once otherwise id have them print me a new receipt. ill post the results of this, going to try and send off the motor this week