PDC started smoking

[bwehman]

An odd thing happened the other day - I grabbed the PDC just to mix some paint in a five gallon bucket. Used the Jacob's chuck with a basic paint-stirring attachment. After a couple seconds, a bit of smoke started coming out of the housing.

I've never had a brushless motor smoke. Is that normal?

I put it away for the day and picked it up the next day. Worked fine.

Should I send it off to Festool still or wait until it smokes again? Super strange behavior isn't it?

 

[mino]

No it is not normal. Power tools run on smoke.
If all of it escapes they lose their powers. You did good by stopping, saving the rest of the smoke.

On a serious note, if is inside the 3 year warranty, I would send to Festool. No questions there.

If outside warranty, you may want to check if some drop of paint did not get inside - that could explaing smoke escaping and next day - when the paint would have stuck - the tool again working as had "its own" smoke still inside.

BTW, I would not use the PDC for paint mixing - beyond some small work. The drill is not that strong and it is easy to overload it in that task.