coloradoair

I have a gee bee 3d with an extra motor and esc. I would like to use it with a flying wing that I made from scratch but I need to reverse the spin of the motor. Can anyone tell me how. On my other motors with 2 wires you just reverse the wires but i'm not sure what to do with this it has 3 wires.

thanks for the help

Gravityisnotmyfriend

My Feedback: (2)

switch any two wires.

acarter

I'm assuming that you are doing this to make the prop a pusher, but it is much more efficiant to buy a pusher prop and keep the motor spinning the right way. If you reverse the motor your prop will be spinning backwards, meaning now the leading edge will be the trailing edge making it much less efficient.

Austin

jagnweiner

My Feedback: (1)

I don't think so. The motor will face the back, but the prop will be installed with the LE now next to the motor instead of the opposite from the motor. The motor will now turn counterclockwise instead of clockwise. The leading edge will still be the leading edge.

Is this correct?

acarter

Didn't even think of this. And yes it should work

DMcQuinn

My Feedback: (13)

There are three wires coming from the speed control to the motor. Switch any two of these and the direction of rotation will switch. And always put the prop on such that the face of the prop is pointing in the direction the plane flies. The face usually has lettering on it such as "7 x 5", etc. . If you put the prop on backwards, the plane will still fly forward, but not very efficiently.