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Re: FTC Motors breaking

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Originally Posted by Geocacher View Post
What mounts are you talking about? I do the vast majority of the soldering for our team and its a big problem wen they break off because we have to get another motor out and solder it and put heat shrink tubing over that.
The FTC kit came with two white plastic motor wire connectors (with wires attached).
You don't "have" to solder the motor wires on to the motors.
Using the connector makes it extremely easy to replace motors this way.

http://parts.ftcrobots.com/store/det...&c=1&t=0&l= 0

If you are going to solder, you MUST strain add strain relii to hese terminals.

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