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Originally Posted by JesseK
The big issue we've had is with novice soldering students being mistaken as veteran soldering students by a mentor asking "can you wire this motor up with andersons for me?" by mentors like me. When unsupervised (or supervised by a non-electronics mentor) they tend to use too much solder, bend the terminals, or both. This leads to solder or wire that almost touches the casing of the motor, and in some cases the solder does touch the casing when the wires are bent in certain ways.
If we didn't have mentors on this team who knew electronics and how unforgiving they are, we would use crimped terminal connectors with some hot glue.
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We crimp and solder female spade connectors to the wire, then solder the spade onto the motor terminal. It is much easier to solder the connector to the terminal than the bare wire and is much more robust.