acceptable motor temps?

[tonystevens]

Just after piece of mind here really, is a temp of 60C within acceptable levels for a scorpion 4525-520 ultimate please? cheers Tony

[GIXERMAN]

In this weather, I would say that was pretty kool for a scorpion.

[dillwhacker]

I would say yes easily - that's the same as a medium cup of tea - not too hot for a motor by a long chalk....
100 C plus and I would begin to worry a little bit, but not panic..
HTH
T

[Jamin_00]

Not measured a temp in this hot weather tbh Tony but we have seen around high 60's.

If you can touch it for at least a second I wouldnt worry about it. I reckon if your spanking it atm you will see 70's and that will be completely fine and well within spec.

You think these motors are being flown in countries where the ambient is mid to high 40's and they are fine so our pathetic odd day off 30deg's will be fine lol.

[tonystevens]

cheers guys thought as much

[Nick B]

So the Infusion Tony,nitro or electric,which is best?

[tonystevens]

Hard to call atm Nick, the nitros fully tweaked and just makes me grin everytime, the E im still tweaking but with the same grin lol, but i can already see that the E is gonna **** all over the nitro once i'm done tweaking ! that's a lot of tweaking!!!

[Nick B]

Nice one...happy tweaking

[Varelco]

I took my fluke IR temperature gun out with me last night out of curiousity.

Ambient was 31C with 1-3mph winds, really humid and stuffy. After 4min flight on my Goblin i measured:

70C on the motor
55C on the ESC
52C on the battery

You can't touch the motor at that temperature its too hot. The cooling isnt great on this model so I wasn't overly fussed. The only thing I had concern about is my battery temps, a bit too toasty for my liking.

[Snaaakeey]

My 4525le was regularly bouncing off 80-85c on the windings all last year no problem.