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Either
a wire, or the lift motor itself has 'gone to ground'. This means that an
unintended circuit path has been created between the offending device, and
another item or wire in the tractor chassis.
Since there is no real overcurrent
protection that had this condition in view, tracking it down and repairing it is
of the utmost importance.
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Monday, April 26, 2004 4:37
PM
Subject: (ET) Front lift problem
I have just
started to use my E20 after spending most of the year updating and repairing
various components of the tractor, i.e. brake and rear battery box, etc.
I had a plow attachment fabricated by a local welder (non ET plow) that I used
successfully to dig out a plot for a garden. I used my tiller to loosen
the soil, then the plow to push the dirt to the side. This took quite
some time as I needed to go down some 24" into the ground for laying down
hardware cloth for gopher proofing, the garden measure 48' x 35' and is quite
large. I had no basis for judging the time I should be
getting on a fresh charge of the batteries. Batts are 6 months old,
purchased from a golf cart shop @ $10 per batt. I thought that the
extreme chore that I was requiring the tractor to do was responsible for short
period that batteries were holding a charge. I recently replaced the
front lift strap with a 1/16" cable that I loop back to give 2 cables for the
lift assembly. Got tired of replacing worn straps etc. I noticed
that when I put the front lift assembly back into the tractor it was producing
a spark upon hitting the metal of the front assembly. Should the lift
motor be drawing current even with the lift switch in the middle off
position? I tried tracing the leads back to the neg post of #4 battery
and it seems to be fine. The positive side also seems fine. Has
anyone run into this kind of problem before? I probably will need to do
a more thorough job of tracing the wires back to see if this is what is
draining the pack inordinantely.
Bob
Bob
Kleinbrahm
Senior
Network Engineer
First
Republic Bank
San
Francisco, CA.
415-288-1478
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