How To Make A Starter Motor Turn Backwards. I reversed the polarity- positive to ground and ground to positive and it turned the way I need it to go. I used to have to reverse the rotation on Indycar starters every few years as it seems as though the designers could not make up their mind.
Listen carefully for a click. And yet after assembling the damn thing it now runs backwards. Remove power from the single phase AC motor and tag out the breaker or switch.
Negative to make the motor spin in one direction.
The problem lies in the fact that the starter turns the wrong way. And yet after assembling the damn thing it now runs backwards. Listen carefully for a click. DC motors are the safest and easiest to reverse.
