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Old 02-24-2008, 10:28 PM   #40 (permalink)
bennelson
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yeah, all the photos on that page are just of the forklift drive motor.

I was suprised to see the angled brushes and the motor was used directly to power the wheels and I am almost positive it just swapped power connections (reversing contactor?) to the motor to make the forklift go in reverse.

The brushes are four single brushes and are angled for clockwise rotation of the driveshaft.

The other motor looks to be better because it has 6 brush pairs and weighs 20 or 30 lbs more. Too bad it doesn't have a drive shaft!!!
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