Posted by Patrick.
Coach on team #409, Flaming Eagles, from Oak Grove High School and NASA Ames Research Center.
Posted on 2/12/2000 7:13 PM MST
Are the Globe motors backdriveable?
Posted by Joe Johnson. [PICTURE: SAME | NEW | HELP]
Engineer on team #47, Chief Delphi, from Pontiac Central High School and Delphi Automotive Systems.
Posted on 2/13/2000 11:13 AM MST
In Reply to: Globes posted by Patrick on 2/12/2000 7:13 PM MST:
The Globe motors are amoung the most backdriveable motors in the kit.
Try it with an adjustable wrench.
The only motor that is not backdriveable is the Delphi window motor (unless you count the drill transmissions with the no-back pins still in the transmissions, which by the way you should remove – see DrJoesDrillAdvice in the White Papers section of this web site).
Also, believe it or not, even the window motors can be FORCED to backdrive. But, I do not recommend this as it is only marginally backdriveable and you are more likely to damage the motors.
Hope this helps.
Joe J.