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My nephew got this Blitz and against my advice got a 5.5 turn which I told him would cause a lot of breakage issues of all different kinds. Of course, he's had all kinds of issues. Most of it he's learned from, but is now having real issues with arcing and asked me to take a look. As you can see this thing is a mess. It looks like 2 of the bars on the motor have gone bye-bye. My question is, can I solder the wires on to that board if I can get them to stay or is that going to continue causing issues? I figure it's worth checking on before I tell him to replace the motor.

Are the solder tabs completely gone or is there still something to solder to?

There's only one tab left on it.

Technically you could solder straight onto the stator, but physical room becomes the issue. Can you take a pic of the damaged tabs?

Will do. May be a day or two before I have time. Worst case I guess I'll just try it and see what happens. Thanks

If that's the case can you take a pic of where the tabs are still in tact, you'll probably have to pull off the end cap.

Ok. I wish he'd had me take a look before he got it in such bad shape. These damn kids these days!!

I'll have a look tomorrow but the black coating can be scratched off the tabs and soldered directly to. Without seeing the tabs it's hard to tell if it's fixable or not. If I remember there is copper on both sides of the board so you may get lucky.

I would bet you could take the unit apart and solder directly to the stator, but I would say that the PCB is pretty much shot at this point. maybe you can dremel off a small section of the endbell to allow the wires to pass through, but insulation of the wires and windings becomes very important.

should probably be shopping for a new motor at this point.

Yeah, it sounds too complicated for me. I think I'll just buy him a new motor. Thanks guys.

Don't give up yet, it could as simple as "scrape and solder"....

I'll give it a shot.

To be honest--that's an EZRun motor. Maybe buying another one would be probably less hassle than trying to repair that mess.

http://www.ebay.ca/itm/TrackStar-5-5T-Sensored-Brushless-Motor-Fits-Hobbwing-Xerun-Brushless-ESC-/131561571272?hash=item1ea1ae43c8:g:V0sAAOSwLVZVrrpy

Coelacanth wrote:To be honest--that's an EZRun motor. Maybe buying another one would be probably less hassle than trying to repair that mess.

http://www.ebay.ca/itm/TrackStar-5-5T-Sensored-Brushless-Motor-Fits-Hobbwing-Xerun-Brushless-ESC-/131561571272?hash=item1ea1ae43c8:g:V0sAAOSwLVZVrrpy

Thanks for the link. I'm kinda thinking the same thing. I may goof with it one day anyway when I have some time to kill.

There is copper on both sides....

We had a spec class with that motor and we always removed the bullets, scratched off the black stuff, and soldered direct.