Re: Motor brake on cordless power tools?

From: ToasterKing (toasterking_at_SPLATbigfoot.com)
Date: 07/15/04


Date: Thu, 15 Jul 2004 11:38:09 GMT

In article <0001HW.BD1ACD710006A743F02845B0@news.individual.net>, DaveC
<me@privacy.net> wrote:

> On battery-powered power tools, is the "electronic brake" feature simply a
> short-circuit of the p.m. motor when the speed-control trigger is released?
> Or is there some other, fancier braking juju being applied?

On every powered drill I've seen (including battery-powered), the brake
is mechanical -- when one lets go of the trigger, the spring allows a
plate physically connected to that trigger to press against the cam of
the motor. But you may be talking about something completely different
here.

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