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Unread 09-03-2007, 18:12
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Re: Stopping motors

You can't. To brake a DC motor, the motor is shorted across the positive and negative terminals. This happens automatically whenever you have the brake jumper on the victor turned on and when there is no/a neutral signal going to the victor.