Shortening leads on Castle/Neu motor

I would leave the leads alone, they are an extension of the windings...Why would you want to shorten the leads?

[MetalMan]

Originally Posted by azjc

I would leave the leads alone, they are an extension of the windings...Why would you want to shorten the leads?

Not on the Castle Neu motors. The windings terminate inside the can.

Originally Posted by azjc

I would leave the leads alone, they are an extension of the windings...Why would you want to shorten the leads?

Thats what I had heard as well, but looking closely at the leads on the Castle motor they appear to just be the same 10g wire they use on the ESC, not like a genuine NEU that are the actual windings exiting the can. I guess thats why I just assumed I could trim them but I wanted a few extra opinions seeing how my assumptions have gotten me into trouble with electronics in the past.



I cant believe I missed that piece of the spec page on the Castle site about the leads. DUR! Im also just noticing that the motor leads on the E-Revo BL are much shorter than the out of the box MMM length.


I thought about just leaving them full length but Im not found of big bunches of extra wire on my motor setups. It looks so much cleaner all cut to length.. I just wanted to make sure I wasn't killing my new motor by doing so.



So that solves that.. time to go shorten these bad boys.


Thanks guys.