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

[David C Robie <mycroftxx1 juno com>]

Can highly relate same as when my brake switch froze and had to pull her
off the sidewalk in front of all those nice shoveling neighbors with the
other tractor.  Or when I let the rotor speed get too low or work the
blower too hard for too long,  pop the blower's reset. (I carry a 3/8
ratchet handle on a wire hook to reset this bugger)

YAH I call this stuff 'Korean war electronics'.  Leaf relays bygawsh. 
When is the last time you saw one on anything else.  GE must've had a
pantload of em left over from the war and had to clear their warehouse of
em somehow.

 But I refuse to R and R practically the whole thing for an alltrax.  But
some day - when I hit the number - maybe - - - 

Dave
Weymouth MA



On Wed, 26 Jul 2006 11:55:17 -0400 "David Roden" <etpost drmm net>
writes:
> On 24 Jul 2006 at 22:47, David C Robie wrote:
> 
> > it's better than having a
> > 30 yr old relay go flooey when I'm blowing snow
> 
> My reverse relay went flaky on a cold, snowy day, and I finished 
> plowing 
> with the hood removed and the relay panel down so I could push the 
> relay 
> down with my finger.  A few days later I ripped out the obsolete GE 
> controller (Mark Hanson calls them "Apollo Era") and replaced it 
> with an 
> Alltrax PWM controller.  Ahhh, much better.
> 
> 
> David Roden - Akron, Ohio, USA
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