Re: (ET) Tool receptacle

["Christopher Zach" <czach computer org>]

Ah. That makes sense.

Except for the switch interlock: When you leave the seat, the power to the
mower receptacle is shut down. How did they get around that?

Chris

----- Original Message -----
From: "Gary Woodard" <farmallcub57 yahoo com>
To: "Christopher Zach" <czach computer org>; "Hazen, Dwight L"
<hazen indiana edu>; <elec-trak cosmos phy tufts edu>
Sent: Thursday, March 07, 2002 9:54 PM
Subject: Re: (ET) Tool receptacle


>
>  Chris:
> My welder plugs into the mower receptacle. I think the inverter did also.
Around here I don't comply with the NEC much, when I'm playing.  We're a
little too rural, yet, unless I go into the place I retired from (cities).
All the factories have to meet code around here. The rest is just "logic"!
> Gary
>   Christopher Zach <czach computer org> wrote: Actually, it's screwed in
on my E20; I took it out to show it to the
> electricians. I could do that, but then the tractor wouldn't be original
:-)
> Also I wouldn't be able to plug in the accessories.
>
> Note: When I took the outlet out, the copper wires had some copper 
> sulfate
> on them. Came off easily with a bit of contact cleaner and a brush.
>
> Question on the Elec-trak accessories: Did the inverter and the welder
plug
> into the little 20amp outlet? If so they were probably overloading it.
>
> Chris
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Hazen, Dwight L"
> To:
> Sent: Thursday, March 07, 2002 8:32 PM
> Subject: RE: (ET) Tool receptacle
>
>
> > Drill out the rivets and install a three prong twist lock.
> >
> > Dwight
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Christopher Zach [mailto:czach computer org]
> > Sent: Thursday, March 07, 2002 7:19 PM
> > To: Gary Woodard; elec-trak cosmos phy tufts edu
> > Subject: Re: (ET) Tool receptacle
> >
> > It's actually a 20amp 250 volt two prong Hubbel plug, and that is the
> trick:
> >
> > No one stocks two prong plugs anymore.
> >
> > When I brought it to the first supply house, they went "wow, you should
> > replace that". Without a ground, the plug pretty much fails every class
of
> > NEC code. Kind of how you will not find two prong electrical outlets
> > anymore; installing one is pretty much a violation of current NEC 
> > codes.
> >
> > That said, they directed me to another place where the manager had one
of
> > these plugs sitting in his desk. Part of a incorrect order years back;
it
> > works perfectly.
> >
> > Chris
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Gary Woodard"
> > To: "Christopher Zach" ;
> >
> > Sent: Thursday, March 07, 2002 11:49 AM
> > Subject: (ET) Tool receptacle
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
>
>
>
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