Hardwired motors?

xatu · #1 04-04-2003, 11:41 PM

What exactly are hardwired motors? Are they motors where the wires are soldered directly from the PCB to the motor?

payaso · #2 04-05-2003, 01:09 AM

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Originally posted by xatu
What exactly are hardwired motors? Are they motors where the wires are soldered directly from the PCB to the motor?

That's exactly what they are.. Now that there are a wider selection of motors out there, the hard wired ones are too much of a pain in the booty to mess with...lol

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xatu · #3 04-05-2003, 10:20 AM

Lol, well, I heard rumors that they are faster.... Is that true?

Heat · #4 04-05-2003, 11:07 AM

well the power goes directly into the motor from the battery so yes it is faster. cuz my friend who's good with electronics put some stuff in my regular bit and he got the power to go thru some divider thing and the motor went faster as a result. what he did was almost like wiring the motor except it gave less power since it had to go thru the divider. my hard wired hummer is fast as hell. but it also sucks if you bought one that had hard wired a 1.0 lol.

xatu · #5 04-05-2003, 11:38 AM

Hmmm, I might do this then

So, all I need to do is to take out the old motor contacts, and just solder the wires directly from the PCB to the motor contacts? Seems easy enough.....

Heat · #6 04-05-2003, 11:39 AM

i unno buy a hardwired clone first or do it on a clone. cuz once it's on there it's a hassle to switch.

xatu · #7 04-05-2003, 11:40 AM

Well, I have a car in mind for this... It is my project frankenbit, after I make some new steering coils. It will be an internal dual cell, and hardwired motor now

bdebde · #8 04-06-2003, 04:50 PM

I ran the hardwired motorworks motor in my pro stock zip zap mod untill it burned up. I tried running the same motor using the normal contacts, by soldering one wire to the motor can and putting a big blob of solder on the other wire to touch stock contacts. The motor was slightly slower this way, but may have been dieing anyway or damaged by soldering. I am having a hard time finding any motor that will match the speed and torque of the hardwired motor, and am considering soldering wires to another motor.

xatu · #9 04-06-2003, 05:59 PM

So, what you are saying is that it is good, but it burns the motor out faster?

Heat · #10 04-06-2003, 07:01 PM

i'm not sure if mine are hardwired directly or they solder the power wires to the contact right next to the motor. i havent really looked at it. but i dont think they just hardwire it right on to the motor...maybe on the endbell tho i aint sure

xatu · #11 04-06-2003, 07:27 PM

I just hardwired my motor, and it was easy as pie. Took me like 5 seconds to do.

AUDI-TT · #12 04-06-2003, 07:28 PM

do u c any improvement in performance?

bdebde · #13 04-06-2003, 07:52 PM

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Originally posted by xatu
So, what you are saying is that it is good, but it burns the motor out faster?

I think what burned up the motor was using 3 cells with it. It does seem to get a little more power with the hardwired motor.

xatu · #14 04-06-2003, 07:56 PM

AUDI-TT --

I don't know yet. I can't test it until I finish my car. It wil be dual celled, internal, I have to make the steering coils, steering spring, fix my controller, and THEN I can test it....

AUDI-TT · #15 04-06-2003, 08:03 PM

i did an internal duall cell, but i removed the chargin things (im an idiot) so i have to delay it until either tom after school or later. Tell me how ur car works out thwn its done !