sorry, i said i would be back in half an hour... then someone managed to make the battery catch fire.... (the wire we are using for our forklift is metallic, and it fell off onto the battery terminals...........) luckily it didn't damage anything.
Al, i had a look, and yes, the speed controllers are wired up into the motors
So i suppose i just remove them and wire the speed controllers directly to the motors.
And thus it is nothing to do with "putting a back current on the speed controlllers (ref our mentor
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