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Tynan
Hi there electrical folk ! :bucktooth:
I have another fairly basic question (basic if you know the answer that is).
I have just dug out and stuck together an electric kids scooter (12V battery / 18Ah / 13 mph) that was in the shed for the best part of a decade.
I managed to clean it up, strip it apart and get it going, all good and well I thought, it's working, so I took it apart again to clean it up (it was in a bad shape / rust / cob webs / caked on crap etc) and then stuck it all back together again.
But . . . . in my zeal to clean it up I opened the electrical motor, took it apart to inspect it and then put it back together . . . but from what I can work out I put the big collar of magnets back in back to front, so now when I press 'go' the scooter wants to scoot backwards.
So . . . taking the scooter apart to get to the motor is a nightmare and taking the motor apart is an even bigger nightmare (it nearly had my fingers off when I was reassembling the magnets!!) . . . . I thought of flipping the motor and the rear wheel but I can't do that due to the way the rear hub brake is mounted on the frame . . . so I was wondering would simply flipping the black and red power leads that run into the motor change the direction it spins in . . ?
The motor is a sealed unit running off a large 12V battery and just has the two wires going into it (red and black).
Cheers for any input / ideas / expertise !!
Lee
I have another fairly basic question (basic if you know the answer that is).
I have just dug out and stuck together an electric kids scooter (12V battery / 18Ah / 13 mph) that was in the shed for the best part of a decade.
I managed to clean it up, strip it apart and get it going, all good and well I thought, it's working, so I took it apart again to clean it up (it was in a bad shape / rust / cob webs / caked on crap etc) and then stuck it all back together again.
But . . . . in my zeal to clean it up I opened the electrical motor, took it apart to inspect it and then put it back together . . . but from what I can work out I put the big collar of magnets back in back to front, so now when I press 'go' the scooter wants to scoot backwards.
So . . . taking the scooter apart to get to the motor is a nightmare and taking the motor apart is an even bigger nightmare (it nearly had my fingers off when I was reassembling the magnets!!) . . . . I thought of flipping the motor and the rear wheel but I can't do that due to the way the rear hub brake is mounted on the frame . . . so I was wondering would simply flipping the black and red power leads that run into the motor change the direction it spins in . . ?
The motor is a sealed unit running off a large 12V battery and just has the two wires going into it (red and black).
Cheers for any input / ideas / expertise !!
Lee