This is 2 different wire splice pairs that someone else did, then hid under heat shrink. Went to some brushed DC motors with a stall current of ~53A. 12 AWG wire too. This was found after we burnt out 1 of 4 motors done like this and I had to replace it. After I saw the first motor like this, I made them pull 1 more to check, to find it also like this. Sure enough, all 4 were done this way. We’ve since swapped to connectors to minimize the chance of someone doing this again.
Cleanly splicing them with insulation on same side and heat shrink might even give better electrical contact than this shit. Or just use wago (or whatever different brand adapted to this wire).
This is 2 different wire splice pairs that someone else did, then hid under heat shrink. Went to some brushed DC motors with a stall current of ~53A. 12 AWG wire too. This was found after we burnt out 1 of 4 motors done like this and I had to replace it. After I saw the first motor like this, I made them pull 1 more to check, to find it also like this. Sure enough, all 4 were done this way. We’ve since swapped to connectors to minimize the chance of someone doing this again.
This isn’t just bad soldering, it’s laziness and impatiens.
There’s been a couple times I was glad my shoddy workmanship has been hidden by a crimp or heat shrink… But I at least tried *yeesh*
NOOOO!!!
Cleanly splicing them with insulation on same side and heat shrink might even give better electrical contact than this shit. Or just use wago (or whatever different brand adapted to this wire).