Abstract: Method of starting a three-phase sinusoidal BLDC motor, comprising: a) determining an initial position of the rotor; b) applying a first set of sinusoidal energizing signals to the windings, corresponding to a set of sinusoidal waveforms shifted apart by 120° and 240° sampled at a first angle (?1); and maintaining the energizing signals for allowing the rotor to move to a first angular position; c) while maintaining the energizing signals, monitoring two of the phase currents, and determining whether a predefined condition is satisfied, comprising testing whether a ratio of two total current values is equal to a predefined value, and if true, to repeat steps b) and c), but with second and further sinusoidal energizing signals sampled at a second or further angular position, selected from a limited group of discrete angular positions.