torque back into the brake cam dissipates over time with prior art brake mechanism designs motor reaction torque had little or no effect on brake pressure because a minimum of 2 5 newton meters of drive torque was required to release the brake thus full brake pressure would be applied virtually from the instant the motor drive energy was stopped in contrast with the present invention motor reaction torque is sufficient to act against the brake cam in order to partly relieve brake pressure the graph shown in fig1 illustrates the torque required to decelerate the motor armature as a function of the brake time the longer the brake time the lower the motor reaction torque when a wash basket is fully loaded the brake time will be long and in contrast when the wash basket is lightly loaded the brake time will be short for long brake times the amount of motor reaction torque that is fed back into the brake cam is low enough that the motor reaction torque will not relieve or reduce braking pressure thus full brake pressure is applied by the brake of the present invention for a lightly loaded wash basket the brake time is significantly shorter when the brake time approaches 2 5 seconds or less the motor.