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"Advantages and Disadvantages of Brushed and Brushless Motors", presented by Galco TV.

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[NotAWomble]

Here’s what I’ll say: if you’re a contractor, or someone who will be using the drill/impact or whatever it is constantly - buy the brushless. You’ll get longer battery life, and the tools won’t overheat as easily, as well as you may get a slight power advantage over brushed depending on the brand. However, if you’re someone who only occasionally needs to use the tools - just buy the brushed. It’s cheaper, and still get really solid build quality depending on the brand. Plus, if your brushes wear out they’re easy as heck to replace.

The brushed does have one and only one advantage over the brushless: the cost and simplicity in replacing parts. When a brushless motor dies: you have to buy a new tool, if a brushed motor dies: you probably just need to replace the brushes.

[abymondesir]

Amazing well explained, needed this info getting into hobby grade RC

[craigmorgan]

To the point, logical and well explained. One of the most informative YT vids i've seen in a long time. Thanks

[roshixx]

Good videos and presentation....now i can learn how to make my own racing drone

[emiebex]

Thanks for the informative video, & explaining The Difference between Brush & Brushless motors.

[TapesNstuffS]

The weakness in the brushless tools are going to be the cheap electronics that drive the motor. They will likely be the failure point. The little computer also typically has pre-determined notched speeds so you don't get continuously variable control. You also get the added trigger lag as the chip tries to figure out how far the trigger's pressed in with most brushless tools. Companies are eager to switch to brushless though because it can make tools lighter and cheaper to manufacture/ship from wherever they slap them together. If brushless designs resulted in larger/heavier tools, despite not having brushes that can wear out that tech would remain a novelty and would probably never be adopted on a large scale.

[FreeBionicArms-Legs]

Bldc does not generate heat, but the controller does

[snowleopard]

We had lots of yellow brushless drills for our electrical crew when I worked as an electrician installing equipment at our local Chevron refinery, typically they would only last a year. The few older brushed units actually lasted longer. They were never fixed, only replaced. They would just stop working, seemingly from an internal electrical issue. I’m not going to say those drills were poor, those drills took a beating from us. A brushless unit is usually bigger and therefore heavier too, and the extra cost seems to be over inflated by a long shot. I’ve never priced out the cost to have the electronics in a brushless unit replaced, but I suspect that they are ridiculously overpriced. All my power tools at home are brushed, if I was still working in the trade and had to supply my own power tools I would consider brushless, but I know they still break.

[Sense]

I don't know about brushless motors. This lady is gorgeous!

[alexandres]

The big problem with brushless tools is their very complex and delicate control electronics. They cannot be repaired and the entire circuit must be replaced. Brushed motor tools are extremely robust and their 4-pole versions are very powerful, which is why they still exist. many dewalt xrp series tools 15 or 20 years old working today.

[Galatians..-]

Brushless generator looks more durable than brush by design. The Brushed Generator's conductors between stationary and other in motion - must be connected to conducting the electricity. Brushless generator doesn't need that, since copper coils are stationary.

[daviddavis]

The major advantage brushless is less friction and less loss as brushes start to wear/down- grade performance immediately. This is well know in other applications that have long used in competitive use to point that brushed is not seen in them any long. Brushless isn't really that new in applications. Cost is the down factor but has gone down which is why you see it offered in lessor applications now.

hi sir, i just have 2 questions
1. which of the two is better for aquariums?
2. can a brushless motor run 24/7?
thank you in advance

[brendankearney]

I connected my golf battery to me golf trolley the wrong way around and the result was that my trolley dose not work anymore. Do you know what happened and is there a quick fix you can help me with.

[Osmius]

As i spin the brush motor with my hand i cant help but notice a fraction noise, should i lube it?

[yahyabora]

the probleme is with some motors where the brushes are inside the motor housing like fore some chinese cheap cordless drill for example, so it's complicated to fix them, and we have to change the whole motor

[TheBootyWrangler]

In my (personal) experience the overcomplicated wiring and requirement of a computer chip causes brushless tools to be much less durable than brushed. I believe the word “durable” is used wrong when talking about the lack of physical contact in a brushless motor. The brushes wearing out on a tool is normal and still takes 5-10 years with heavy use. This doesn’t lower the durability at all in my opinion as the brushes are consumable. It’s more like replacing the batteries in a remote than the remote breaking.

You could make a brushless tool in a glass housing and it would shatter the moment you drop it. Would that tool be considered more durable? If you look at brushes as consumables then they become the more durable tools due to their simplicity. I feel a lot better when one of my brushed tools falls off of a roof simply because I know it will still run fine after. The brushless tools just don’t hold up to as much physical abuse.

My 2 ¢

[lotku]

Very impormative now iknow the diference between brushed and brushless motor.

[fatsquishyfry]

my brush motor drone is better than my brushless one :)

[DavidBridgeTechnology]

"In perpetual physical contact with the shaft"
Really?