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(ET) Re:MY "NEW IDEA" EGT ON FIRE



Dear EGT owners and sages,
Tonight, with the first 6" of snow in Nebraska, I tried putting concrete (2 hole) "'cinder" blocks on the sheet metal shelf behind the seat of my 27 year old larlge frame EGT by GE. 
    This to help the snowthrower clear my driveway which is only 34 ' x 17'.
It didn't help the traction much, and I had to raise the hood and press the reset button to get it going once.
After trying to back up the 12 percent grade of my concrete ddriveway, smoke started pouring out of the dash compartment. 
    The emergency disconnect sw lever didn;t make a bit of difference.
 I ran, got the big Halon beast fire and owner killer, and with a 4  or 5 sshots, the smoke stopped for a while.  Again, dark, no light, no wrench, burst into house, found flashlight, crescent wrench, and burst out to disconnect any batt terminals I could get to;  more smoke, more Halon, REAR batt coompartment now oozing smoke.  Knock the two blocks off, raisee the seat/nattery cover and disconnected one of the four rear batts.  No smoke. I died. *&*%$*& blocks.
Fright. 
Remorse to have rewired a new timer charger last month and  miswired the $*%&#*wires.      When daylight comes, I'm going to be sick looking at the fried wirings.
I have an auto short finder gadget, might help.
Advice? be careful not to load cinder blocks on the rear batt cover, and be sure the emergcncy disconneect will disconnect!
Paul Wood, "sadder but probably no wiser."
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Tuesday, January 14, 2003 5:13 PM
Subject: (ET) solid state

Hi!
I have looked at some of the arckives, has anyone had sucsess at solid state?  I was thinking of a two stage: a golf cart controller for the armature and a second swithch for the field.  I would reverse the field instead of the armature.
Bill
Ferguson Apiaries
Hensall, On
519-236-4979