[OCCRA]: New DeWalt Problems

[iwanttodunk]

I'm experiencing a problem with the new DeWalt cutting out when I drive them. During our weekly adult hour thing we asked one of our engineers David Bowden about this problem and he told us motors prefer to drive in one direction. Originally we had one new DeWalt motor on our robots left side and one older DeWalt on the right side. I noticed when I drove the robot backwards the new motor cutting out and when I drove forward the motor was fine, there were no problems with our old DeWalt motor, this would mean the new DeWalt motor turned fine clockwise but cut in and out moving counter-clockwise. I also noticed that the new DeWalts have no back drive where as the old DeWalts could be turned when there was no power connected to them. As it stands now we are switching our motors back to the ones we used last year. Are we the only team having problems with them or is this a common problem and if so how do we fix it? Also we are running them on 30 amp fuses, are these the correct size for the new DeWalt motors?