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Is there any information available about the internals of the SPIKE Prime and Robot Inventor angular motors?

What Hall-Sensor is used by the SPIKE motors?

To be more precise: I'd like to get information about the internal components of motors in a way similar to this teardown of the SPIKE Prime Hub.

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    There's some spec sheets at education.lego.com/en-us/product-resources/spike-prime/… - does that suffice? Sep 18, 2021 at 12:23
  • any chance to get the value or part no. of the hall sensor? Jul 22 at 16:14
  • @AbdElhaleem In the answer the last sentence is this: "The part number on mine is BCZK 116." Does this answer your question? If not, please ask a dedicated question with the necessary details.
    – zovits
    Jul 24 at 21:10

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Here's what the part looks like from the outside:

exterior

The first step to opening it up is to remove the cover over a section of the drive. Note that this process is likely to cause permanent damage to the part as it requires prying and bending.

cover off

We can now slide the gray back cover off.

both covers off

The PCB is clipped in at the front, but with some care we can separate the gearbox from the motor.

gearbox separated

The gearbox houses a pair of bevel gears. The gray one that is part of the drive shaft is 11 tooth and the smaller one is 9 tooth.

gearbox

With significant force, the drive shaft can be separated to remove it and reveal the magnet that is used to sense drive angle.

drive shaft and magnet

Moving back towards the motor, we find a double planetary gearbox similar to the one found in several motors without angular drives.

double planetary

planetary side view

The motor itself is soldered to a PCB. There's nothing other than traces on the side facing the motor, so I haven't bothered to desolder it.

motor and PCB

The main microcontroller appears to be an STM8S103. My part has the following part information:

S103
PHVG
939Y

The other significant visible part labeled 509R is a thermistor that serves to put a hard limit on motor current.

Viewed from the other side, we can see the hall effect sensor that is used to detect drive angle. The part number on mine is BCZK 116.

PCB top

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