Thread: Wires heating up
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Re: Wires heating up
Be sure you have 12g wires in all your motor circuits.

Make sure all your connections are good and solid. A poor connection, for instance a bad crimp, can cause the circuit to pull more current, causing the heating. Poor connections and small wires add to the resistance in the circuit.

Check the resistance between the power source and the motor leads, if you can get to them. Heating goes as current squared times resistance, so a little resistance can cause a lot of heating at the currents that the CiM pulls.

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