RE: (ET) charger

["Tom Coate" <tcoate coate org>]

Jeremy -

Good to hear of another ET alive and well in the area.  (I'm across the
river from you.) Others on the list should have more thoughts on using
multiple chargers at once.  You may want to go back to the archives, I 
think
there was a discussion on that not long ago.  When I first got my E-20, it
also lacked a working charger.  I got by with just one 12v charger that I
rotated around the pairs of batteries.

As long as you are sticking with flooded batteries, I would no give up on
the built in charger too quickly.  If your problem is with the diodes 
and/or
the capacitor, these are easily diagnosable and replaceable, and readily
available through Bill Gunn.  If the transformer is blown then things get
more difficult.  I've gotten mine all repaired and added in one of Harry
Landis's controllers.  Really makes life easy -- every time I'm done 
working
I just plug the tractor in and walk away.

Tom Coate
Leesburg, VA  E-20

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-elec-trak cosmos phy tufts edu
> [mailto:owner-elec-trak cosmos phy tufts edu]On Behalf Of
> Jeremy Gagliardi com
> Sent: Monday, October 22, 2001 9:30 AM
> To: Elec-Trak
> Subject: Re: (ET) charger
>
>
> "Rhett T. George" wrote:
> > Hopefully you did not turn the battery set around polarity-wise.  Does
> > the positive cable still go to the positive battery post?  Which 
> > breaker
> > trips?  The house breaker or the chartger breaker on the forward panel?
>
> Batteries are connected fine.  However, at the time the charger went
> out, there were no batteries in the tractor.  New batteries are in, and
> everything works great.  The only items not functioning are the horn and
> the charger.  I gave up on the charger.  I disconnected it from
> everything to rule out a short somewhere else in the tractor.  It seems
> fried to me.
>
> What I've done, instead, is purchase three 12V chargers and I plan to
> hook each one up to every 2 batteries.
>
> Is it possible to hook up the chargers in series, or will that fry their
> circuits?
>
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