I've always heard the same thing, I wonder if it's more to do with an internal cooling fan.
Roy
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--- In 7x12minilathe@..., Robert Francis <bobf0648@...> wrote:
I've heard time and time again, the motors being set to run in the"main"
direction, but never have I seen it documented by the equipment
manufacturer. I think it's an old wives tale!
On 05/19/2013 08:19 PM, Roy wrote:
Some of the controllers are set up to add a speed limiting resistor in
reverse. That's supposedly because the brushes are advanced a few
degrees to improve efficiency when the motor is running in the normal
direction. In reverse, the benefit becomes a loss.
Roy
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<mailto:7x12minilathe%40yahoogroups.com>, Jerry Durand <jdurand@>
wrote:
On 05/19/2013 12:14 AM, John Lindo wrote:
My arrangement differs as an idler gear has to be incorporated into
the the assembly so as the spindle rotates in the normal anti
clockwise
direction without having to have the machine set in reverse.For some
reason,Real Bull lathes have a common problem of slower RPM when in
reverse.
Why not just swap the + and - wires to the motor so it runs the
other way?
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