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Marv,
Once wired up, the flap actuator uses electric braking to stop the coast down
you are seeing.  You can observe this effect outside of the plane by driving the
motor with a battery and then quickly removing one of the leads from the battery
and making contact with the other flap motor lead.  The actuator will stop right
now!  During coast down the electirc motor becomes a generator which you are
loading up when shorting out the leads.

Chris Zavatson
N91CZ
Woodland, CA
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