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<div style="font-size: 10pt;"><div dir="ltr" style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;">The later model tractors with their simplified electronics are the way to go if you don't want to go all the way to a modern controller. My EGT-150 is just rock solid.</div><div dir="ltr" style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;"><br></div><div id="LGEmailSignatureBox" dir="ltr" style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;"><div dir="ltr" style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;font-size:9pt;"><i>Sent from my T-Mobile 4G LTE device</i></div></div></div><div style="font-size: 10pt;"><div id="LGEmailHeader" dir="ltr" style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;"><div dir="ltr" style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;"><br></div><div dir="ltr" style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;">------ Original message------</div><div dir="ltr" style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;"><b>From: </b>David Roden<etpost@drmm.net></etpost@drmm.net></div><div dir="ltr" style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;"><b>Date: </b>Thu, Jun 6, 2019 5:54 PM</div><div dir="ltr" style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;"><b>To: </b><a href="mailto:elec-trak@cosmos.phy.tufts.edu">elec-trak@cosmos.phy.tufts.edu</a>;</div><div dir="ltr" style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;"><b>Cc: </b></div><div dir="ltr" style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;"><b>Subject:</b>Re: (ET) Clicking contactor and blown Controls fuse - Early model E15</div><div dir="ltr" style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;"><br></div></div><pre>The ET factory controller design is relatively straightforward and easy for relative amateurs to work on. However, it's not especially efficient, it's definitely obsolete, and it's prone to various failures. I had more trouble with the reverse relay than anything else on my E15. The final straw for me was the snowstorm where I was plowing the driveway with the hood open and the panel unscrewed so I could push on the reverse relay to make the tractor back up. Adding a modern solid-state controller markedly improves the tractor's manners and <a href="http://reliability.Th">reliability.Th</a>e downsides of controller conversion are 1. You gotta pick (relatively) cheap or (relatively) easy. You can't have both.2. Unless you're a well trained up-to-date electronic engineer, the controller becomes an unfixable black box to be sent out for service or replaced if/when it fails. Fortunately, that normally doesn't happen very often.David Roden - Akron, Ohio, USA= = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = Note: mail sent to the "etpost" address will not reach me. To send me a private message, please use the address shown at the bottomof this page : <a href="http://www.evdl.org/help/=">http://www.evdl.org/help/=</a> = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = =_______________________________________________Elec-trak mailing<a href="mailto: listElec-trak@cosmos.phy.tufts.eduhtt"> listElec-trak@cosmos.phy.tufts.eduhtt</a>ps://<a href="http://cosmos.phy.tufts.edu/mailman/listinfo/elec-trak">cosmos.phy.tufts.edu/mailman/listinfo/elec-trak</a></pre></div>
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