Re: (ET) crap - started mowing, and lost forward speeds

["Konstanty, Walter \(GE Indust, ConsInd\)" <Walter Konstanty ge com>]

   It sounds like the Reverse finger relay is welded stuck or not 
contacting.
- Loosen and pull back the inside front panel.
- Have someone sit on the tractor (put it in neutral/block tires) and move 
the lever from left to right without moving it up or down to make the 
drive motor turn.
- You should see and hear the Reverse relay move up and down and 
click...if not, determine which one (you'll hear or feel the buzz) and 
sand the contacts and make sure it moves ok when tried again.  It 
typically welds shut so the motor doesn't get field which draws tons of 
amps and makes the clicking noise on the relays.

...Walt

-----Original Message-----
From: elec-trak-bounces cosmos phy tufts edu
[mailto:elec-trak-bounces cosmos phy tufts edu]On Behalf Of RJ Kanary
Sent: Sunday, July 23, 2006 3:43 PM
To: Michael S Briggs; elec-trak cosmos phy tufts edu
Subject: Re: (ET) crap - started mowing, and lost forward speeds


         Poor high current connection comes to mind.
BTW, the model of your E-15 is..................?

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Michael S Briggs" <msbriggs alberti unh edu>
To: <elec-trak cosmos phy tufts edu>
Sent: Sunday, July 23, 2006 2:48 PM
Subject: (ET) crap - started mowing, and lost forward speeds


>
> Today was the first run with my "new" E15, mowing the yard. After about 5
> minutes or so, I stopped to lift the mower deck (having some trouble 
> with 
> the
> Gator Blades - one of the blades (far right one) keeps getting grass 
> stuck
> under its "wings", causing it to stop cutting the grass well).
>  When I got back on the tractor to start driving again, it wouldn't go
> forward. Reverse works fine. When I put move the speed selector forward 
> (any

> speed, and any gear on the transmission), I get a repetitive clicking 
> noise,
> and the needle on the power use gauge hops all over the place ("click" - 
> moves
> to the yellow region and then another click and it goes back to zero, 
> click
> again and it repeats over and over, very fast).
>  Any ideas? It had been working fine (other than the blade issue).
>  Actually - another update (just went out to try to see if I'd be
> able to just mow the yard in reverse) - reverse seems to not work not
> either. When I move the speed selector to reverse, I get sort of the same
> thing, but more of a buzzing noise than a fast clicking. In both cases 
> the
> Fuel gauge meter drops to zero (which to me indicates that there must be 
> a
> very big current trying to be pulled, although the power use meter 
> doesn't
> peg in the red, perhaps because of the intermittency of the current pull
> (since it seems to switch on/off/on/off very rapidly).
>
> Thanks,
> Mike
>
> -- 
>
> --------------------------------------------------------------
> Michael S. Briggs
> UNH Physics Department
> (603) 862-2828
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