Frequent question that is asked on TC is can the SRB handle a more powerful motor. I propose a new question, can a more powerful motor handle the awesomeness of the SRB. The answer is NO 🤣
My SRB has ruthlessly murdered 2 sport tune motors and her latest victim was a team brood 13 turn black can motor. This motor is designed for crawlers so it was the built in fan. That still did not stop my SRB from taking its life. 😉
The method of death, was heat. The first 2 sport tune had the rear plastic cover on, so I assumed that caused things to become very toasty. On both, one of the brushes broke off and melted itself into the plastic end bell. With the teambrood motor, I left the rear cover off so that the fan could do its job. The motor survived the first pack at the beach on the first day. It nearly survived the second pack on the following day as it was near voltage cuff off when the motor quit. The destruction however was much more severe. Like the sport tune one brush broke off embedded itself in the plastic end bell. The second was surrounded by a gooey mess of plastic / what was left of the fan. All of the armature copper were covered with black soot. The heat was also sufficient that the enamel paint on the can can easily be scrapped off. The ESC was not very warm, so it was not working very hard or being overloaded.
I have pictures to post, unfortunately this site remains challenged with respect to attachments. I keep receiving an error message, or unrecognised and reach kb limited when there is no attachment.