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It sounds to me like you have "something gone to ground". check for voltage on the frame. You shouldn't have any as the battery pack is isolated from the frame and NOTHING should be grounded to the frame.
It is a potentially dangerous situation that you should correct ASAP.
It can be tedious to find. On my machine I ended up disconnecting just about every wire of every circut until I found the culprit.
good luck,
dave
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From: "Kleinbrahm, Bob" <rkleinbrahm firstrepublic com>
To: <elec-trak cosmos phy tufts edu>
Sent: Mon, 26 Apr 2004 14:37:01 -0600
Subject: (ET) Front lift problem
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> 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.
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> Bob
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> Bob Kleinbrahm
> Senior Network Engineer
> First Republic Bank
> San Francisco, CA.
> 415-288-1478
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