[FTC]: HiTechnic Motor Controllers - Motor and Power wires fall out???

[ftcTeam6389]

Hello Teams,

I am interested to hear if other teams are having issues with power and motor wires becoming detached from the HiTechnic motor controllers (usually at the most inopportune time).

It seems to me that a better design for the motor controllers would be to make them more like the servo controllers which have plugs for connecting the servos. Why do the motor controllers have to have wire ports with bolts to hold the wires in there?

It is our experience that if the wires going into the MCs have any angular stress on them, they will eventually become detached. Not very robust in our opinion.

Our current solution is to build a "motor controller containment box" which will have holes in the side directly across from the MCs, that we will pass the MC wires through. We then have an Anderson Power Pole connector mounted at that spot, connected to those wires, physically attached to the side of the "motor controller containment box". The idea is that we will keep the wires from moving at the point where they connect to the MC. Sort of like this...



thanks

- FTC Team #6389