Can you repair a broken motor lead?

Technical Motors
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Ok, so we were testing our arm and have broken a lead on our motor (the negative lead). According to R47

“Motors and servos used on the ROBOT shall not be modified in any way, except as follows:
A. The mounting brackets and/or output shaft/interface of the motors may be modified to facilitate the physical connection of the motor to the ROBOT and actuated part.
B. The electrical input leads on the motors may be trimmed to length as necessary.”

So according to this it seems to me that we can modify the connectors to attach to the bot/electrical interface and then it seems that I saw somewhere that we were now allowed to repair the leads on the Tetrix motors if they broke. So here is the question, are we allowed to do the same thing on the RS-550?

Thoughts? There is nothing in the rules that I can find that specifically prohibits reattaching a broken lead…maybe I’m not searching the correct keyword/s… ::rtm::

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I read <R47-B> as allowing the motor leads to have their lengths changed by trimming. Adding length would be negative trimming…

Just make sure you get the right size of wire (i.e., if it’s smaller than the motor lead, don’t use it. Larger is fine.)

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rse,
Are you referring to the power input “tab”? Team update 11 made this change to R55
M. Devices may be repaired, provided the performance and specifications of the component after the repair are identical to those before the repair.