Disabling Hall Sensors?

How-Tos & Esk8 mechanics
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Hi All,

I have a basic, and likely dumb question…

Background: I have a motor with a faulty hall sensor, or so I think (motor doesn’t reliably spin, and I have switched connections into the battery/esc from left to right and same issue) I have ordered a replacement and its in transit, but I am impatient. The board is a Vestar Blackhawk which uses a hobbywing ESC… and I have no access to programming it. (I have downloaded the HW tool and it seems to connect to the remote via BT but fails when trying to access the board itself.)

Question: Is there a way I can bypass the sensors while I wait for my new motor to arrive so I can still ride? (ex: literally cut the sensor wires from the motor?)

Thanks in advance

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you can just unplug it…
however you will lose a smooth startup and will only spin nicely at 5kmh or so

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Thanks for the speedy reply! To unplug I’d have to take apart the battery enclosure. Given that I have a new motor inbound, so have little to lose tampering with the old one… can I accomplish the same thing as unplugging by cutting the wires from the sensors?

I realize the smoothness of startup/etc would suffer.

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not necessarily. Hobbywing escs are really good sensorless (from my experience, YMMV)

@Alterd yes, best case would be to just unplug them and be golden. Make sure you do it with both so no wonky results appear. (just to be safe)

technically yes but then obviously don’t cut the good one.

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this is correct

or u can just cut the sensor wires, but that would mean u need solder work if ur replacement comes in.
hobbywing is quite forgiving when sensor is not present, also its just one side, so it shouldn’t cog that much on startup. also…just a small kickpush before throttle is always a good habbit :man_shrugging:t2:

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Thanks everyone for the responses!

I would cut the wires directly inside the bad motor

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just make sure u don’t short anything from the sensor wires, isolate all the wires individually…

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