How a series wound Golf cart motor goes in reverse. 

Awesome!

You are welcome. It is definitely a confusing concept that no Golf Cart schematics explain.

Thanks. It took me FOREVER to realize this! And NOTHING on RU-vid explains it!

It was helpful when I learned it so hopefully it’s helpful to others

Your welcome

That sounds more like a shunt motor not a series motor. A series motor all the current passes through all of the fields. The armature fields and the stater fields. A shunt motor current passes through the armature field, and the stater field on the outside has two smaller wires going to it, and the controller varies the resistance in that field to change the speed of the motor. It also changes the polarity of that field to make the motor go backwards .

@@RetroElectric how can I tell if I have a series or shunt motor?

@@joshuadavis2062 a series, wound motor will say S1 s2 a1 a2 a shunt Motor will say a1 a2 f1 f2 and the F1 and F2 should have smaller terminals

@@RetroElectric ok I for sure have a series motor then. So for that do I just reverse the polarity on the whole motor or where would I reverse polarity at to go in reverse?

@@joshuadavis2062 yes I do believe changing the polarity of the field should work