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Step 5Wire it up

Wire it up
Twist together the black wire from the battery terminal to the black wire from the motor.

Next twist together the red wire with whatever color wire is remaining. This is typically a red wire, but in my case, the wire coming from the motor was blue.

The colors are not so important as a DC motor should typically be able to spin regardless of the orientation in which the positive and negative terminals from the batteries are connected.

(If the motor has no wires coming off of it, solder the red and black wires to its power lugs.)
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