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Re: (ET) Alltrax finally up and running!
Another happy little etrack gets etrackin. Many happy mows and
snowblows to you David
Dave
Weymouth MA
On Wed, 06 Sep 2006 20:30:22 -0400 "David Roden" <etpost drmm net>
writes:
> On 6 Sep 2006 at 13:21, Kleinbrahm, Robert wrote:
>
> > I discovered that
> > when I checked continuity from the field motor connections F1 & F2
> back
> > to the controller leads they seemed to be fine. I then took it
> one step
> > farther and actually disconnected the J6 connectors and retested
> for
> > continuity. It was then that I discovered that the connector
> output
> > lead for pin # 36 had 2 wires coming out of it, even though the
> input
> > side only had 1 wire. I made the mistake of connecting both leads
> from
> > this pin out source to the F1 & F2 field connections on the
> controller
> > unit.
>
> I don't understand what you mean by "the connector output lead for
> pin #36
> had 2 wires coming out of it, even though the input side only had 1
> wire."
> What is pin #36? How can a connector have an input and an output?
> Sorry, I
> guess I'm just not picking up on your nomenclature here.
>
> Are you saying that you connected the Alltrax field outputs to the
> same
> terminal? If so, that would sort of explain why four of them
> failed. A
> short circuit on the field output is generally fatal.
>
> Or are you saying that one of the Alltrax's field connections went
> nowhere?
> I think I recall that Alltrax controllers also don't like open field
>
> connections so that could cause it some consternation too.
>
>
> David Roden - Akron, Ohio, USA
>
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