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Thermal stress on a coil of copper wire must have less of an effect than on a piston engine where wear occurs dramatically faster when cold. Obviously the rest of the airframe would be more-or-less the same but electric motors (especially when running off VSDs) don't really suffer per start the way ICUs do.


It's not so much the copper itself, but the surrounding components, especially insulation.




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