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The motor on this quadcopter won't spin. Let's do a real world troubleshoot to figure out why.

[@WackFPV]

I love how you go over every issue and give an small explanation. Truly the master at making tutorials.

[@h2o-fpv623]

Ok thank u for posting this video because I was almost giving up trying to fix my drone and just by watching ur video I was able to fix my drone again thank u so much.

[@dwightlewis7762]

The sound of Joshua Bardwell powering up "doo doo doo... Doooo doooooo!"

[@blizzardfpv9584]

Wonder if Oscarliang.com will be able to make a BLHELI_32 startup for us. 😂 👍

[@Switch180fpv]

Loved that on the product page you had some issues before and THEY already put your video there about the vtx pit issue and now motor mapping LOL

[@sirBumpyCase]

I had this issue the other day and all the problem only ended up being a signal wire severed I could tell because the motor twitched when I plugged the battery in. ( exact same motor, btw!)

[@RobertLeclercq]

My favorite part is where you show yourself making simple mistakes like the rest of us. Remind us all its toys and to laugh and have fun!

[@pippifpv]

Hahaha... That laugh

[@macualey]

i have a weird problem with two of my quads. I'm getting random motor dropouts when I try to fly perfectly smooth. it feels like some motors are dropping out for half a second sometimes. kzbin.info/www/bejne/iWbRhpt6d9Ktrrc

[@MysteryD]

"I feel the buzz" - Joshua Bardwell

[@fukale3438]

Tri-Copters are a thing, bring them back bardwell!

[@derecktaitt8457]

Sometimes you just gotta give a man a fish 🤣🤣🤣

[@RCRitterFPV]

I have a few that won't spin.. I figured esc's.. ordered some new ones and waiting for them to arrive,.. but maybe this video will change my plans...

[@neonoir__]

If your quad does a deathroll and one of the motors can't spin to full speed after (but still spins) you very likely had a motor winding snap. Happened to me twice on emax ecos since the top of the bell is so close to the windings. Small rocks and other shit gets in and the motor crushes itself until something snaps.

[@gerrysquire]

funny. you learnt something today

[@karbonroryfpv6897]

I use talon f7 fusion stacks..... could have taught you something today haha.... should have brought it up in your stream n would have saved u that! Haha I had same issue and was killing me ! Haha

[@heliharris69]

I know this is a hobby as well as a full time u/tuber /job for you.... But your knowledge of all things Quad is non the less outstanding.. As is your presentation of all aspects of the hobby... Respect... I know talent when i see it.

[@HaleFPVRC]

That was funny 😆 you’re reaction was priceless roflmao.

[@foomp4532]

6:21 is the best sound I ever heard

[@Deserthacker]

Holy shit, it is perfect.

[@MCsCreations]

Awesome video, Joshua! Thanks a lot! 😃 Yeah, the wrong target can be tricky! Stay safe there with your family! 🖖😊

[@quirijndubois7041]

that ending was the best part of the video

[@WesleyDugg]

5:50 is pretty much me every time I solve an issue

[@AbdullaLootah2021]

I like the way you explaining i think if you make a video about the sounds of drones and radios and what it means it will be really interesting

[@alienfpv]

But if one motor wont spin after the crash, that could be physical damage? I tried to clean the motor as it was hard to spin by hand.. and also replaced the cable you mentioned... still problem with new motors! But as said, I had a crash.

[@michaelweber7964]

Hello Mr. Bardwell, after I have already seen some of your videos, I would like to contact you. I have a problem with my first newly built drone. After arming and giving a little throttle, the motors turned to full throttle without propellers and at the same time the throttle stick failed completely. I could only stop the motors using a failsafe (switch off RS). Since then, the stack (SpeedyBee F7 V3 BL32 50A 30x30) can no longer be armed and the motors can no longer be addressed in Betaflight. Likewise, the bidirectional DShot can no longer be switched on in Betaflight. Also the button for Gyro RPM Filter is no longer available in Betaflight. Otherwise the stack works normally. Also the ESC seems to be ok according to BLHeliSuite32. Can you possibly tell me what is wrong with the stack? As a somewhat advanced beginner, I am at the end of my rope. Best regards from Berlin Michael M. Weber

[@mssr77]

Hey Joshua my nephew is starting his FPV journey and his first quadcoter is a master 5 with a SpeedyBee f7. We got to reordering the motors and one motor is getting an error of 100 in red text. We have 4 newish FPV guys on it but can’t find a solution for him. Wondering where you would start for trouble shooting?

[@remainsmemories626]

2:00 OR previous used just disabled startup tones. I once was fixing "dead" ESC, and the reason that I didn't hear those beeps was zero startup beep volume

[@falckiee7550]

i had only 2 motors spinning, turned out the connector between ESC and FC was just a little bit disconnected. i pushed it in and voila. hope this helps someone

[@kristiansunder]

hi, i have the following problem: my front left motor is not spinning. the fc i new, the motor is new. it makes the right sounds when i connect it to the battery. the quad is a cinelog 35v2 with a geprc 722 45A AIO V2. the wires and solider joints are looking good… betaflight tells me that all 4 motors are running but there not… please help! thanks a lot!

[@jojoloves6236]

had same issue on old drone not mine. Battery connected lights up but motor won’t run. The motor coils has resistance but its pcb capacitor is below reading label. When connected to battery motor felt hot but no sound or movement. Was it hardware or firmware ?

[@superspirofpv]

the amount of time he said "do do dooo, do doo" is hilarious lol

[@alfonsogalvez2800]

I am having a similar issue. One motor stopped working after I ran three packs through it the day before. Flashed the FC (MAMBA F405 Mk2 /F50 stack). Had it set to DSHOT600, and only 3 motors worked. Went on Betaflight and calibrated the motors in the Motors tab, still same result. Checked in BLheli, so issues there. Then, just for shits and giggles, went to the configure tab, changed the target for the ESC, to DSHOT300, nothing. Then to ONESHOT125, and now all 4 work. Any thoughts?

[@piratapro_4kFPV]

Im having an issue with My #1 ESC not showing on BLHELI_32 causing motor 1 to not operate. Is this a bad ESC? Ive dbl checked my wiring harness. ESC does its proper initial sound test when battery connected. motor 1 does not move while performing its initial pwr up test though. plz help. F722 HGLRC Zeus flight controller paired with an Hobbywing 60a 4 n 1.

[@360_tours]

I could use your help. I can't get the motors to turn. I can get the motors to turn in Betaflight through the motors tab. I also see the transmitter talking to my receiver in betaflight (I see movement of throttle, pitch, roll etc). However, when I unplug the quad from the computer and plug in the battery and try with just the transmitter, I get no movement. I've tried changing the motor protocols around, adjusted the arming to 180, flipped my arming and disarming switching up and down, but still no luck. My arming switch is the SF switch on a tx16s. It is also assigned in the modes tab and I see it being activated. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks Going to watch your arming fails playlist. Thanks

[@О.Ш-ь1щ]

That's not a beauty of troubleshooting, but an idiotism of every opensource project! That's what had born a great hate to programing like arduino and rpi and all other opensource things. We say it russian "to work through an asshole", and that describes all the libraries for each propouse on github. I do not absultelly need thousands of libraries for the same propouse with none of them works correctly. I need just one that works in the right way, and I see no problem to pay for it like 5-10$. The same thing with betaflight and emuflight... Why do I have to spent the whole weekend to tune my quad? Lot of parameters whith no correct descripption... Pidtool box just made it a little bit easier to tune pids and filters, but only when all "spoiling" parameters like boost, idecay, spa, iterm rotation, feathered pids and etc are disabled... And if I enable something like featherd pids I'll have some strange behavior graphs on pids when before the gyro get to the setpoint it has a horizontal shelf at about 0.4-0.5 of the set point and than it goes up to the setpoint... If I turn on idecay it just make my quad slowly pitch or roll by itself... So the main question: why do I have to tune my drone by myself, if there are lots of autopid tuning programs? and also there is a great question about how is it when the drone fly in the right way? I mean a feeling of a perfect tune of a perfect drone? I do believe that even betaflight and emuflight developers do not know it... Maybe developers should decide about REFERNCE DRONE? Mathematicaly everyone should understand that perfect tuned drone is the one, which have no overshoot and fast following the set point... So that's all about newbies who come to that hobby and have no any idea of how that thing should fly, how to tune it especialy when all the videos about tuning just talking about "THAT LOCKED FEELING" when you raising up P and etc..

[@rcpdfsdotcom]

Man you helped me out with a problem I've been trying to figure out for too days now with just this one video. I have a mamba F405 MK2 stack and I flashed the new version of betaflight on it, just thinking it was the mamba 405 target not thinking to look for the target on the paper under the flight controller now I'm feeling pretty stupid. All this time and I thought I fired the esc somehow. That's keep up the good work

[@beselectronics3778]

@joshuabardwell one of My readytosky RS2205 doesnt spin when I use my FS-i6X transmitter but the all spin nicely in clean flight. Can you help me? Connected to BLHeli s Favourite little bee 30A ECS. I get all the beeps on power for the motor in question

[@Voyajer.]

Just had a light crash on my first 6S quad's maiden flight, unbalanced a motor and thought I managed to kill one of the ESCs in my 4-in-1. Well at least I don't need a new ESC...

[@gammagonad1657]

@Joshua Bardwell I wrestled with that board about a year ago. I was about to pull my hair out until I discovered that. At first you had to use the resource stated for that firmware. The new target didn’t exist yet. (RESOURCE MOTOR 6) for motor 4...silly lol

[@zhenlinkan8857]

I ran into this same problem with MATEK H743 SLIM, and Velox 45A V2 4-in-1 ESC. one of the ESC is working fine, but the other one has one motor not working. There's no such easy fix as in the video on their website, any ideas?

[@allennickles3970]

I have a simular problem with Kiss 35amp esc right now. Error coming up (Problem with One wire ID #3 detected) No motor detected or failure on High side Fet/gatedriver. ?? Motor number three will not work! And I have tested the motor everything I know to trouble shoot it!

[@mikeflight9]

Hi Joshua. I have a question about number 2 motor on my recently purchased HGLRC Petrel 65 Whoop. Number 2 motor is not outputting full power when I have the quad plugged into Beta Flight and test the motors on the flight controller. Number 2 motor seems to have a problem spinning up with low throttle but spins up when I input full power with the Beta Flight motor control tester. It does not produce full power like the rest of the motors. I have done the ESC calibration several times and made sure I did it correctly but motor 2 still isn't producing full power. This is a RTF kit and comes with spare motors that just plug in. I replaced number 2 motor and did the calibration several times more but motor 2 is still not outputting full power I am now assuming that there is a fault on the board? This is the entire information from the HGLRC website on the controller. Is there anything I can do or is the ESC on the board broken? Thank you for any help you can give. ZEUS5 FR AIO 1-2S flight controller Input voltage:1-2S FC firmware:BF ZEUSF4 FR (HGLR) ESC firmware:BL_S Frsky SPI Receiver Protocol:FRSKY_X / Frsky D16 FRSKY_D / Frsky D8 Size:41.5*41.5mm

[@Dominic-t8s]

I definitely appreciate the laughter cause I know. I have a lot of frustrate shouldn't ahead of me. Have to ruining my quad in the 2nd day.

[@ebbrxavier]

Joshua, 2 of 4 motors vibrates 3 times with the beep at bootup...then the last 2 beep don't cause vibrations on these motors.... 2 other ones are fine. i was hoping this video would solve my issue but it felt short of it as the issue lied somewhere else. What should i do? Not using bidirectional...quadx set...they are not spinning on motor page though i have the 4 sliders

[@jap3rd]

I have this issue. No do do on one motor. Every thing is fine. Gone through all fixes said. Done contuniwety test no buzz. So all seems OK with esc. Help !!!!!

[@kauthsarbahrul322]

I'm not sure, my motor was starting to spin after i plug in to the battery for a sec and stop, my flight controller start to show red light, how can i fix this?

[@Ja5onB0urn3]

Potato

[@raycaton2498]

I tried updating the firmware on a drone using Beta Flight, and now only one motor spins. Is this something you've encountered and could advise?

[@shotbyarian]

for me it was my speedybee f7 V2 stack .. it has issues, you need to update to bl heli 32.9 or higher, then it should be fixed (fingers crossed)

[@chinobino7538]

i just got a rekon 5 and its all updated and flashed to the same version as express lrs its binds it tells me signal found but i cant get the motors spin on betaflight or on my radio

[@LasciviousPsyche]

I have a little drone one motor isn't working after hitting a tree, I live about 20 min from you, do you wanna fix it? lol

[@YoungBrascoTV]

Hey buddy Im having the same issue but with a new Matek System F722-SE F7 Flight Controller, I soldered the esc’s to the flight controller like how the diagram shows on there website. I plugged it in and got nothing when I moved the channels. Are the esc’s shot I have no clue.My previous build I had a PBD and a fly controller this one seems to be all in one I have never dealt with these LOL is there anyway that you could possibly help me out so I can get up in the air flying

[@lemofu]

I have a whoop with all 5 beeps, but the motor 1 doesn't spin. It tries a little bit and that's all. Already tried everything 😢

[@renatodeblasio8311]

Hi! I have the exact same issue but with an OMNIBUSF4SD and when I try to put it in booting mode it starts a long never ending beep and I keep having failure in flashing it. Any suggestion?

[@kamrokosz1600]

mine has the exact same issue described here, even the same motor isnt working but my target is correct and the cache was able to auto complete what should i to next to fix it?

[@henriksby4745]

Hello! I have the same issue, but my motor does not «vibrate» at the start.. is then my esc bad? Thanks for answer!

[@minonim8749]

Can anyone help my back motors give no movement when arming but only front two does also the motors work at 1030 throttle but then stops after it , stopped working after accident reset

[@jayantjoshi5662]

I fixed one of the motor which was not working but while screwing the drone back another motor wire got cut. When I joined the wire together now this motor rotate alone when I connect the battery and remote is not connecting ? When I disconnect it then rest three rotates with remote signal. What is going on ?

[@Skrtttttttttt]

Hi there I got the same problem with a GEPRC25 the front motor doesn’t spin, what I can do ?

[@maceliusfpv370]

I have the same FC and I use the TalonF7Fusion target, why would you use the legacy target?

[@efsanetarih]

how to fix if drone motors are spinning without propeller but when using propellers on motors cannot be spinning, do you have any idea?

[@81davido]

Having same problem with tmotor f7 hd stack with betaflight.. help!!

[@mikel3419]

Check motor direction? If he hasn't been flying it yet and while you are set up to check...just saying.

[@xymaryai8283]

> super old esc bruh, i have a 3 year old and a 2 month old quad and both of them only support Oneshot125 .-.

[@DISSENDAT]

The simplest solution is usually the answer. At the end of the day, problem solved, so happy flying!

[@yusuferen9510]

thanks for this amazing tutorial. ı have that du du duut dut duut coming from my motor. but its not rotating. what is the possible problem, do you have any idea?

[@olliewhittall4440]

hi joshua my motor seems to power up and vibrates to all the beeps and even spins when i arm it but it spins very clunkily often stopping. do you have any suggestions

[@kdronescotland1381]

Cool video IV had problems in the past with new builds with duff motors a good test if everything else seems ok is to swop motors and the duff motor moves but is a pain resoldering may be I will make a motor tester as in one of your other video to test new motors on

[@PkwyDrive13]

I just got a new iflight nazgul 5 V2 6S, everything is setup and it arms but none of the motors spin when I throttle.. Just random stutters here and there

[@beeeebopje8877]

Evena total newbe like me onderstand your explanation and maner of attak to the problem ,thanks your right i learnd some today 😛

[@nikolas8741]

One of my motors stops in mid air when I move forward, back, left or right. What may be the reason pleas help

[@high008rise]

Sad part is they go out of stock and they always place the same issue on each restocked item. It's your branded fc fix this issue so the newer releases don't have issues.

[@moblades1]

Funny video. I did learn something regarding the motor beeps. Thanks.

[@edygome]

Troubleshooting 101, its always the simplest or dumbest things 😅

[@dansurf828]

I have it that everything works except the motors don't spin and it doesn't beep on start-up.

[@dmaxrc]

Haha I'm one of them people who you helped 🧐 and doing it again ...so if still spin fed is ok ?

[@timhowitz9405]

I had a motor not spinning once after my brother crashed my quad, it turned out that the motor output from the flight controller was pulled to ground, so I soldered that wire from the harness to the ppm receiver input pad, remapped it and it worked like a charm.

[@Mr18031967]

yes a crash can do funny things bro pull a wire or ground something i thought it was sig wire for motor 4 have a great day bro

[@isaacdeckert5388]

What does it mean if i can feel all 5 beeps through my motors but none spin up in beta flight

[@mr.g_fpv3292]

Josh a slow clap to you buddy, slow clap to you. Hahaha stay good lookin bro

[@foebiggs]

Hi I have a new geprc sparrow but only 2 esc show up In blheli any help please

[@RGMGFitness]

Good video...always check those manufacturer websites. 👍👍👍

[@SkyCandyVisuals]

Good job JB I think you learned something today 🤣

[@Politicallyhomeless957]

Lol that’s FPV...know your target private!

[@mech_ty_b_27_aditya_gop6]

You just saved me, thnx a lot to you, love from India

[@Politicallyhomeless957]

Was it the motor map? I haven’t finished yet but that’s my guess

[@rino6429]

What does it mean if your drone doesnt beep when you turn it on.

[@Arty_C]

It's me again from not so far in the future. Thank you.

[@bertbeinaaf8314]

So RTFM means: Remap The F***ng Motors?

[@stephontaylor7356]

When you find it you learn something

[@Mr18031967]

just goes to show you sometimes its just not what you think i thought it was the sig wire for motor 4 hence no beep beep on motor 4 very intresting vidio joshua thank you i love watching these troubleshoots you always can pick up a few tips

[@JoshuaBardwell]

Yeah the signal wire would have been my first guess too.

[@Mr18031967]

@@JoshuaBardwell thanks for the reply joshua have a great week

[@7bo0ob]

The quadcopter doesn't continue the beep...the controler doesn't flash the light also the receiver ... I feel one of the moters dead not smooth when I rotate it after the quad fall in water...but it doesn't connect to the betaflight....do you think the flight controler dead because of the water...does this make it dead ???

[@JoshuaBardwell]

Based on what you're describing, I think the FC might be dead.

[@RCRitterFPV]

omg... great video @6:20 why I'm a patron..

[@klopossa2]

I 2 have felt and acted so on fix..excellent!

[@toddwilliams4583]

I have am issue when I throttle up motors Rev up but my quad won't take off and then the motors will just keep reving even after I have left off the throttle. Not sure what I did wrong but I'm back tracking now trying to find the issue

[@toddwilliams4583]

Ok fixed this issue lol but now I have a issue where the motors just Rev up even when I have the throttle down and my quad will arm most of the time but sometimes it won't

[@marcoguada42]

I'm a simple man, if Joshua laugh me laugh

[@beechFPV]

Brilliant video. Have done this a few times

[@ckfpv]

Im laughing with ya JB 😀😀😀😀😀

[@archer4922]

I think you just saved me a lot of $$$. 😎

[@aaronvandegrift6478]

Let’s get our boi Joshua to 200,000

[@rollingfpv6303]

So if you don't feel any DUDU esc dead?

[@rino6429]

I but a drone 4k pro i flon it 7 time and it doesnt beep no more and the motor dont start evryting else works the lights the camra etc. Whate could be wrong i did evryting in the book.

[@rino6429]

I bought a drone f11 4k pro and i flew it 7 time and now when i put it on it doesnt beep no more and the motor dont ingage dont work but the lights. Camera etc. Works whate could be the probleme p.s. let me now tanks.