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0:00 - Props off for safety!
0:47 - What's the symptom of a bad ESC or motor?
1:27 - Why the motor and ESC but not the FC?
2:26 - A "dragging" motor is not necessarily bad
3:41 - Start with a physical inspection of the motor
7:35 - You need to have this tool to protect your equipment!
8:44 - Starting to discuss ESC startup beeps but then...

   • How To Find The Short-Circuit In Your...   - How to find the short circuit in your quadcopter.

11:19 - Motor construction, and how it relates to how motors fail
13:44 - Additional tests to see if motor or ESC is bad

   • Is Your ESC Broken | HOW TO FIND OUT   - How to tell if your ESC is bad.

14:37 - Next step: swap the motor with a good motor and see if it spins
15:33 - How to interpret ESC startup beeps for troubleshooting
21:22 - How to tell and what to do if your FC is damaged

   • How To Fix A Bad Motor Output With Be...   - How to use resource remapping to work around a bad motor output.

26:22 - Can you really build a whole quadcopter with no soldering and not computer?

   • Anybody can build an FPV drone now (R...   - Watch Ken Heron build a quadcopter with NO SOLDERING