Motor reversing with OI board - what's the best way?

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Motor reversing with OI board - what's the best way?

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Okay I hope I'm just overthinking this, but I'd appreciate some input. And maybe a brief discussion would be helpful to others.

I have a gen2 Leaf inverter with an Openinverter board, and I need to reverse the direction of the motor due to how it's mounted in the car.

My first thought was to simply wire my FNR switch backwards and call it a day. Is that a reasonable plan, or would I run into any issues with regen, peak power, etc?

I looked through the PINSWAP options in the wiki and thought maybe one of those would achieve the same thing, but wasn't totally sure. If that is a valid solution, does anyone know which setting to select? Is that better than wiring the FNR switch backwards?

And finally I do know I can swap two phases and two resolver wires, but since the inverter is mounted to the motor I'd rather not mess with the bus bars if I can avoid it.

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Re: Motor reversing with OI board - what's the best way?

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FNR backwards is one solution, setting "dirmode" to "SwitchReversed" is the same solution in software ;)

Certainly no need to mess with resolver or even phase wiring.
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Re: Motor reversing with OI board - what's the best way?

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Ah perfect, thank you very much! Sorry I didn't see "SwitchReversed" as an option for Dirmode in the parameters.
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