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Rover 5 Motor running backwards

I have gotten around to running all four motors on my Rover 5 at the same time.  One of them runs in the opposite direction to the rest :-/  (see my robot post)

While I guess I could negate the direction in the code, this seems fragile.  How do the motors work?  Is there a simple way to reverse it? (reverse the polarity of the power pins?)

 

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I too have that problem, lucky us!

It seems that the connectors on the rover are not wired to be connected to the dagu controller...

OddBot's picture

No, just a case of an uneducated Chinese laborer accidentally soldering the wires back to front. It only takes a minute to unclip the wires from the socket and swap them over.

Chris83's picture

Like Chuck said I'd just reverse the wires of the motor. 

I was hoping it might be something like that.

ChuckCrunch's picture

revers the wires on the motor