Do you need an ESC to run this brushless DC motor with Arduino Uno?

Question

This is the motor:

https://www.aliexpress.com/item/Wholesale-JGA25-2418-8-5-1977-rpm-Electric-Motors-Brushless-Motor-High-Torque-Speed-Controlled-DC/32360228129.html

I'm hooking it up to the arduino as described and giving the PWM outputpin analogWrite functions, but it's not working.

Answer 1

No. It has an ESC built in.

You just provide power and a PWM signal, and optionally a direction signal.

To test:

1. Connect red to +12V.
2. Connect black to 12V GND and to Arduino GND
3. Connect white to D5
4. analogWrite(5, 128);