Hi everybody,
I’m novice in the field of electronics and I don’t know how to connect my 65161 motor who has only 3 cables with my fsesc who has 6 
If anyone could help me to answer at this question it will be great !
Valentin
hi, the vesc has 6 cables and the motor has 3. you solder 2 vesc cables to 1 motor cable and same for the battery, its so they can use smaller cables like 8 awg and pass the some amount of current through
Exactly. There are actually only 3 outputs from your ESC. Flipsky decided to double up on the cables. The cables that are close together, are actually electrically connected together on the ESC PCB.
Ok Thanks a lot for your answers, I will try with 3 cables !
I am getting ready to connect the 6 cables on my VESC to the 3 on my motor. Before I start cutting wires, I thought I would ask some advice on how best to make the connection. The wires are all 8 gauge and the tips of the 6 coming off the VESC look nice and cleanly tinned already. I’d like to put bullet connectors between the VESC and the motor. Does this sound like the right approach:
Solder each pair of wires coming from the VESC together onto one 8 gauge wire, then attach a bullet connector to that single wire and on the end of the corresponding motor wire.
If so, to solder the pair of wires together, I should cut off the tinned ends and try to mesh the strands together, correct? From what I have read, that is the best way to make a good connection.
The tinned nubs on the ESC cables look so clean and easy to insert into a bullet connector. I figured I would check that this is a good plan before cutting them off.
Any advice?
Interested to hear from others since I will be receiving the same vesc + motor combo shortly.
Also, what happens if you use just 3 of 6 and cap off one of each pair? Same current but through less wire which generates more heat? Noob here.
Crimping them works well for me.
As an update, I broke down and just tried soldering the connect. The thickness and length of the wires I was working with made it very difficult to get enough heat to the point where the solder was meant to melt. I am ordering some crimp connectors and am going to try that. The connections I was getting with the solder were pretty bad.