Ok, looking good. Sensor wires are so fine but no problem stripping the insulation off.
Phase wires is not what I expected, thought it would be copper but is not.
Time to solder it together!
Phase wires are tinned copper, I would’ve left that mt60 connector… pretty sure the female vesc leads plug right in(4-5mm)
The mt60 connecter is from the old Evolve 5565 motors, I cut it off so I can transplant it onto the MayTech 6555 170Kv motor phase wires as it had bullets instead and the Evolve has mt60 connecters.
All good then 
Sorry to hurt your feelings, but those are some of the worst solders I’ve ever seen.
- Get a hotter iron
- With a flat tip, put the iron on top of all the lumps until the solder sinks into the wire
- Re heat shrink and your ready to go.
Sorry to sound like an a hole, just trying to help. Your first solder job was better than mine
. Anyways, there should not be any lumps on soldered connections
@Brad
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No hurt at all. This is why I posted the pics, for feedback.
Just the first time I done it. Had the tip set at 400 degrees.
Will re-do it tomorrow arvo.
Yea, the tip should be at somewhere between 600 and 750f (398c)
I know this is an old pos that I’m ressurecting, but I’m having trouble finding an answer. If you arent using VESC, how do you go about testing the order of the sensor phase wires to know the order is correct? I don’t want to blow my motor or esc…
Sensor wire a/b/c order does not matter just make sure that V+ (red) and ground (black) is in the correct order.
For phase wires, if the motor spins the wrong way, just simply switch any two random phase wires and viola, the motor will spin the other way.
I accidentally pulled out the red wire from the Hall sensor harness on my Evolve Carbon GT, and I am trying to figure out how to fix. Evolve sells the harness for $5 and probably $15 shipping. I know I could get a 100 of these for that and Id rather not give them my business.
Anyways I am trying to figure out if I can just reattach the one wire to the harness or if I need to cut all the wires and solder a new harness on there?
All of the replacement harnesses I can find have a different wire pattern. I know @Brad said only the red and black wires matter the order. However all the replacements seem to be Blue|Green|Yellow|Black|Red vs the Evolve one that is Black|Yellow|White|Blue|Red. I can’t seem to find any that have Black and Red on the ends.
All help appreciated
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You can just ignore the colour on the replacement harness cos it will have to plug into the PCB on your Evolve board and the colour order on the PCB is still the same.
So if that is the case, you can just reattach black into blue as blue will just go into black on the PCB board inside the enclosure.
That way black(blue as the new ground) is still first and red is still last (same as Evolve setup) and middle colours does not matter.
I hope I understood you right
Hi Brad , can you tell where you bought all those connectors ?
I bought them off Ebay. You can also buy off Aliexpress.
If you want easy way to connect to JST-PH for hall sensors, you can just get an adapter from Pyscotiller or Torqueboard or Unik.
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Hi. Just found this post after I’d almost given up on my troubleshooting. Hadn’t yet seen anyone tinkering with the evolve wiring… I bought two replacement racestar motors for my bamboo GT. Thought it’d be plug and play, but one of the motors spins in the opposite direction when mounted. Everyone had been saying to change two of the phase wires around but these wires have different connectors (the triangle 3pin plug). So if I can manage to re-solder two of these wires around it should in theory, reverse the direction yes?
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It seems I have a similar problem: I would like to connect the hall sensor cables from this direct drive motor to this Trampa VESC.
The hall sensor cable from the direct motor has five colors: black; green; yellow; blue; red
The Trampa VESC has 6 connections: V+; Temp; H1; H2; H3; GND
To which ports on the VESC does black, green, yellow, blue, and red from the motors connect to?
Thanks a lot for your help (from an esk8 novice)!
I learned that the outer wires are positive and negative current. Should be also the case with your hub motors. Then you got the temp sensor which in your case might be absent. The rest doesn’t matter where they connect to. V+ is positive and gnd is ground (negative). Maybe you just need to skip the temp sensor and connect the rest as indicated. Trampa sells the 6-strand connectors but you can also get them anywhere else I suppose.
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Having the same issue mate, just that I have to find that out for 6 wires… hope someone knows and replies in here!
Thanks so much! I hopefully assume correctly:
(1)
red = GND [wrong!]
black = V+ [wrong!]
… and this is all I need to know!
(2)
white = Temperature sensor - this one seems to be missing.
(3)
green = H1
yellow = H2
blue = H3
Here it does not matter whether H1 on the motor also corresponds to H1 or instead to H2 or H3 on the VESC etc.
Thus, will get a new 6 pin JST connector and pay attention that V+ and GND are connected correctly from the motors to the VESC. This should work without soldering, right? Unfortunately, I do not know how to do that …