I was out mowing last week with my New Idea tractor when it
suddenly died on me. I lost all power to tractor and am at a loss as
to the reason. I had run over a small tree branch with the mower and
stopped pto to clear it out of the deck when the power guage went to
zero. No more power registering on guage! I pushed tractor back into
garage and proceded to trouble shoot, but have not found the reason
yet. I checked the main disconnect which is making and good. Checked
breaker on firewall which is also good. I thought I found problem with
an auxiliary 36 volt line that I had on tractor that was shorting out
to frame, but after removing the aux line I still have no power.
Tractor reads 36 volt when I meter between front and back batteries but
still no go. I tried to plug charger in, but I get no response or hum
at all. Anyone have other ideas that I can look at?
Thanks,
Bob K.