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Well I jammed it up for a second, my fault, but I cannot believe how quickly it smoked. No overload protection, just stopped and a puff of smoke and done. I am surprised how quick it was. Makes me think that these new brushless motors are delicate and if the electronic overload does not kick in the smoke quick.
I wouldn’t say delicate so much as high-strung. They’re small in order to achieve a form-factor and passing a lot of current for the purposes of doing a lot of work for their size. I don’t know how fast yours went out but there could have been a little more to cause that, like the thing getting jammed causing larger pulse of emf than would be typical of most tools. Last I saw Makita actually only uses a handful of different brushless motors (all built internally), so the motor in the router is likely the same as in a number of their other tools.