Re: [MV] Deuce Wiring Puzzlement

From: Patrick Jankowiak (eccm@swbell.net)
Date: Fri Jan 10 2003 - 19:20:36 PST


Starter is a 'universal' motor. if you reverse the voltage, current
flows 'reversely' through both the stator and the rotor.

1=forward (motion or electricity)
-1=reverse (motion or electicity)

stator rotor rotation
  1 * 1 = 1
 -1 * -1 = 1

Stephen L Dussetschleger wrote:
>
> .it's my understanding that a starter will run in only one direction...
>
> **** Just a distant memory, but I think I remember HONDA made their
> Large touring bike (Gold Wing) one year with reverse. I think it was
> using the starter somehow to move the heavvy machine backwards. Maybe
> they used a gear or something, but seems to me there was discussion about
> the starter running backwards to move the bike.
> Any Honda owners out there can provide insight ?
> Steve (no, I don't own a Honda)
>
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