Motor spins backwards, rotated 180, still spins backwards??

[Gutter Ball]

I bought a different armature for my Peak Aurora can. When I first put it in, it spun backwards. Okay, no problem, just rotate the endbell 180 degrees right? Well I did that and it STILL spins backwards :confused: The positive and negative wires are on the the correct sides.....I tried reversing the throttle on my M8...still spins backwards. I don't get it! I'm going to try and switch the pos/neg wires on the can later...that's not gonna wreck the magnets I hope.

[NPedeInsanity]

I think it may be in your ESC. Perhaps these a jam or something inside of it.

[ElectricThunder]

That's odd...maybe something's up with the armature?

[Bob Ebophalus]

switch the motor wires. or stand on your head.

[kn7671]

Does your motor have 4 magnets, or 2 magnets?

[Gutter Ball]

Originally posted by Bob Ebophalus
switch the motor wires. or stand on your head.

Haha, I just switched the pos/neg wires, but forgot to switch the schottky :rolleyes: Duh...POOF!! Ah well. It's spinning the right way now :)

It's a 2 magnet can. I dunno what's up with this....it's just weird. I did try to reprogram the Cyclone. Eh, it works, so I guess it's okay.....or until the motor just blows up :)

[Railman]

Gutterball,
When you rotated the endbell, you must have put the wires on opposite the polarity markings, hence eliminating the effect of rotating the endbell. I know it can be confusing, but the whole idea is to swap the magnet locations in relation to the wire polarity. If the pos wire is on the red mag, then switch the pos to the blue mag side to reverse it.

I prefer to just say swap the wires, or even better; JUST TURN THE CAN OVER! If you turn the can over, the wires, endbell, & shotkey stays just like it was. It's all about the magnet polarity.

If you swap the wires, you also have to reverse the shotkey diode so it's oriented right to the wire polarity.
Joe