How to Reverse a Brushless Motor RC Basics

How to Reverse a Brushless Motor RC Basics

Follow along in this video as I demonstrate a super easy, and completely safe method to reverse the rotation direction of any brushless electric motor.

This is a great discussion for beginners of RC basics.

The way to reverse the motor direction is to simply sway out any two of the three electrical wires from the electronic speed controller (ESC) to the motor. There is no polarity with these three motor wires. Just sway any two and the motor reverses its direction of rotation.

One danger, and something you should NOT DO is to try and reverse the motor's rotation direction by using the "Reverse" function of a computer transmitter. The transmitter reverse function will simply reverse the input of the throttle stick, i.e. throttle control full down, which is normally idle, will now be full power. This could truly take a modeler by surprise as the brushless motor suddenly goes into full power should you take this approach.

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Chapters

00:00 - Intro
00:27 - Motor rotation discussion
01:32 - Demo of reverse direction
03:10 - What NOT to do
07:40 - Conclusion