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Unread 18-06-2002, 23:45
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Quote:
Originally posted by Digo

I hope it was easy to understand (but probably it wasn't!).
There are so many words I don't know in English, so it takes me too long to explain something easy.
Almost right, but not quite...

In break mode, the speed controller connects both motor wires together to form a closed loop. When the magnets inside the motor turn, they induce a magnetic field in the wire... the field created is an opposite magnetic field that opposes the motion. The harder you turn, the harder it opposes it. Any person who has taken physics will know that this is called Lenz's law...

Of course... as said above... since electricity and magnetism go hand-in-hand... there is current created, which is dumped back into the speed controller...

Heh... in collge I plan on double majoring... Physics and Electrical Engineering... so, I'll be quite familiar with this stuff soon...
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