Questions on E tranny

[Dafni]

I know alot of you here have plenty of experience with the EMaxx transmission. So you should be able to answer my questions.

Does the tranny care in which direction it is spun?? I mean, does it matter if I run it the other way around, or would you flip the diffs instead??

Also, those pins holding the gears on the input shaft look surprisingly feeble to me. Do they hold up, or are they a weakpoint? Ever managed to break them?
Not only would this be a pain to fix in a hurry, but I can imagine the shards or broken pieces of such a pin could do serious damage to the tranny.
Is there a better oprion than this thin pins?

DAF