Victor 884 won't go forward

[Matt Krass]

Originally Posted by KenWittlief

when you spin a motor (backdrive it) it acts like a generator. We use to demo this with the globe motors and the old rotating lights - hooking them together, turning the globe motor with a wrench and the rotating light would lightup and spin

during an event when you let off the joystick, the motors back-feed, and depending on whether you have your victors set to coast or brake, the counter-EMF (generated voltage) from the motors will either be shorted through the victors to act like a brake, or it will be left open circuit and the bot will coast to a stop.

I dont think you can blow out your victors this way unless you were pushing the bot really fast, and the motors were generating a voltage above the Victors rated MAX voltage spec.

Well they were being spun at the same speeds as the CIM motors running at 12VDC and driving the bot, considerably more power then you can do by hand, and more or less continuously for 1:30 to 2:00 minutes....So it's pretty rough on the circuits. That and we did it four matches in a row