At the very least you can expect increased resistance of that phase, which means more heating for the same current, which could lead to overheating and cooking the windings more, which would result in a motor that is fully toast.
I wouldn’t risk it, I see a gouge in the windings deeper in, not just the one obviously broken strand.
If it was just the one strand, you might be able to get away with it, as the change in resistance would be small, probably less than 5%. With that more extensive damage, the change will be more drastic.
Doing routine check on motors and I noticed I can push the shaft into the motor. It springs back but in comparison there’s minimal play on the other motor. What to do? Thanks in advance.
From one type of garbage to another.
That style of bullet connector is notorious for overheating and having the springs fail, because the full current of the connector travels through the spring.
The recommended type look like this:
My guy. My dude, My broski. My brother in Christ.
How the fuck could we have known what you were planning to do before you posted about it?
If you had come on here and said “I want to replace these garbage connectors with something better, what do you folks recommend?”, we would have told you.
ok but serious question is there any way to check if the 5volt and ground wire on sensor cables are color codded correctly, i don’t want to plug them in a new vesc and blow everything up
