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Originally Posted by J3110
So, yeah, this whole not enough space for the heatshrink on your connectors thing kinda bugs me.
I don't like the amount of pressure there is between the heatsink and the shrink tubing on my motor wire bullets. There will be metal on metal contact there after only a few runs...at the very least, it is something to worry about.
So, what do I do? Just wait'l something goes wrong or send it back to them asking for one that leaves anough of a gap that I don't have to worry about these connectors shorting to the heatsink?
What the hell, Castle? Nowhere during your quality checking did anyone notice this might present an issue? I mean, why would anyone wanna put shrinkwrap on their connectors? Of course people will want all 3 motor leads making contact with the same aluminum heatsink... 
Think I'll see what I can manage with a scap of lexan, but I'm really getting sick of the whole Castle mantra of "fix it yourself before using".
If I wanted it to be like this, I'd be buying caps, fets and circuitboards and making my own. |
Hmmmm --- Again, we checked, and checked and checked this issue--- OVER AND OVER AND OVER AGAIN. We shorted the bullets, scraped off the anozide and pushed the heatsink intot he bullets, etc. Never could we even get ONE failure to occur.
So don't berate us, we tested the hell out of this supposed "problem" and found there to not be a problem.
Besides -- I don't think the issue was a pair of bullets pushed into the heat sink -- or there would have been two bullets that showed damage. And the heat sink itself would have also have burn damage which isn't evident in the pictures. It could very well have just been a loose connector that caused that type of damage (as the male connector made poor contact, it burned the edges of the female.)