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Re: (ET) RE: Installing Landis controller in an Elec-Trak E-20



Thanks very much!!!!!! Please everyone that has the Landis controller that is connected in parallel with the stock timer put an ON/OFF switch between the motor. The stock timer has 4 wires on it, the 2 wires, next to the shaft that the knob goes on, is the switch part. The other 2 wires on the other end, go to the motor. Cut 1 of these wires to the motor and wire a switch. I mounted the switch, on the grill, next to the stock timer. If you want to use the stock timer you MUST turn ON this switch, if you don't the timer will NOT turn itself OFF. Then the batteries will really COOK. I like the added feature of the Landis controller offers, and will be ordering more.
Thanks for your time.
Goodbye Mouse
Garry East TN

At 10:12 AM 6/26/2003 -0400, you wrote:
Mea culpa and confirmation. I must admit, last night, I went out and checked on
my controller/timer combo.  Late at night, batteries boiling, my timer was
already halfway through a cycle that I didn't start, and the bottom of the timer
was hot when I unplugged the charger and unwired the timer.

Indeed, the timer IS starting on its own in this situation.

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Jeremy Gagliardi
E20
Bethesda, Md

On Thu, 26 Jun 2003 00:34:55 -0400, "David Roden (Akron OH USA)" wrote:
> On 25 Jun 2003 at 16:52, Garry & Terry Freese wrote:
>
> > Mutual conductance is when 2 wires are close together,
> > the wire that has current going through it will transfer small amounts 
of
> > current through the adjacent wire. It would not take very much to start a small
> > motor.
>
> I have never seen any case in which enough coupling occurred between
> insulated wires to run a motor -- except in transformers, where the coupling > is designed in. I can't imagine it being able to run the timer motor on an
> ET charger.
>
> BUT -- if the timer motor were wired in parallel with the transformer
> primary, I can see how having another switch in parallel with the timer
> switch could indeed cause the effect you mention.  Instead of paralleling
> the new controller with the timer switch, you might add a DPDT switch to
> select between the new controller and the old timer.
>
>
>
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