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Hi Paul, What's cookin?
Sorry )-: On a similar note, you better add an inline fuse AT THE BATTERY TERMINAL on the ACCESSORY LEAD!! (lights, etc fuse block.) My son was pulling the axle and wheels out from under a semi trailer using the I-5 while I picked it up with the loader. It was doing a fine job pulling about 800 lbs. when suddenly black smoke started pouring out all over. My son bailed, turning in mid flight to throw the disconnect, again Paul to no avail. I jumped off the loader, lifted the seat bat. cover and ripped the burning acc. wire off the battery. As any fellow electrician knows, the wires should be protected AT THE SOURCE rather than at the load end. Apparently this never occurred to the engineers at GE. The acc. wire has no disconnect and no fuse to protect it and I have never seen an ET that did. Cause: The shunt by the steering column got very hot during the pull and melted the insulation off the acc. wire which then shorted and burned in the cluster right back to the rear battery, even melting part of the battery itself. Still ran fine but I must now run a new wire AND FUSE IT at the battery. Radio Shack, etc all have nice heavy in line fuse holders that are used for high power amps in our teens cars. This also goes for the LIFT WIRE as well! Jim
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." |