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13-12-2014, 14:18

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Re: Back driving a CIM

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Originally Posted by matthewdenny

We also have a swerve design where to rotate the wheel 90 degrees it would have to back drive a cim a rotation or two.

We would like to know how much torque it takes to do this.

In this case, aren't you powering the motor? I'm assuming the swerve module causes the wheels to rotate a little and you want to counteract that by powering them in the opposite direction.

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