Re: (ET) Nothing works!

[paul mitchell2007 comcast net]

So I'm really close to getting everything working, but I'm stumped on one problem.  I've narrowed it down to contactor 2RTN.  When I sit on the seat and turn the key, both 1RTN and 2RTN click (open?).  However, as soon as I move the throttle forward to the 1st position, 2RTN clicks back as if the key was shut off, and the motor doesn't run.  If I push 2RTN open, all 3 throttle positions forward and positions 2 and 3 in reverse work. It seems there's a short somewhere, but I don't see one.

 

I've checked the wiring and I'm not convinced that what I have matches the manual.  Wires 15-01 (pin #7) and 15-00 (pin #8) in J2 join with 15-00 (pin #7) and 15-00 (pin #8) in P2.  In other words, a single wire goes from pin 7 to pin 8 in P2, but also, 15-00 from 2RTN goes into pin 8 in P2.  Is this the way it's supposed to be? 

 

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From: "David Roden" <etpost drmm net>

> On 10 Oct 2008 at 16:47, RJ Kanary wrote:
>
> > "If water and electricity behave so much alike, why
> > do you never see puddles of electricity when there's a leak ?"
>
> Because the electrons are tiny and invisible, that's why.
>
> But they're there!
>
> No worries in the ET though. It's all open, so there's no place for the
> electrons to puddle. They just roll off and sink harmlessly into the
> ground.
>
> In your car it's all OK too, because as soon as you go down the road, all
> the accumulated electrons from the open switches flow out through the tiny
> holes in the body seams, and again sink harmlessly into the ground.
>
> When they build up in the ground too much, nature takes care of the problem
> by having a thunderstorm to suck them back up to the sky.
>
> It's also not necessary to keep plugs in every unused receptacle in your
> house, though some very cautious people do this. Not only do the electrons
> slip right through the pores of the carpet and between the floorboards,
> remember that AC reverses direction 60 times a second. So it's always
> sucking most of the electrons right back into the receptacles, before they
> can even fall to the floor.
>
>
>
>
> David Roden - Akron, Ohio, USA
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