Re: (ET) Lift motor ideas?

[David Brandt <ev_dave13 yahoo com>]

I used an ATV winch instead of one of those.  The original equipment is 
getting too hard to find.  Works great.  A little expensive, though.  I 
imagine you could adapt a different motor to do the job (maybe even a 36V 
one!).

David Brandt


--- On Sat, 2/26/11, David Roden <etpost drmm net> wrote:

> From: David Roden <etpost drmm net>
> Subject: (ET) Lift motor ideas?
> To: elec-trak cosmos phy tufts edu
> Date: Saturday, February 26, 2011, 12:56 AM
> What is the current thinking on the
> best option for replacing a lift motor? 
> 
> After almost 14 years of yeoman duty at a no doubt
> perspiration-inducing 24 
> volts, my E15's lift motor finally failed Friday, during a
> long snow-ramming 
> session.  It started making an odd gravely noise, and
> shortly thereafter 
> switched to grumbling and refusing to lift the blade more
> than a couple of 
> inches.  Then it quit working altogether, though it
> went back to grumbling 
> old man mode after it had a chance to cool (guess there's a
> thermal 
> protector in there).
> 
> I dug my poor long-suffering parts tractor out of the
> snow.  A couple hours 
> later I was back in the snow-ramming business, a new old
> lift motor at work.
> 
> When I connected 12 volts to the suffering motor on the
> bench, it cogged and 
> throbbed mightily, suggesting to me that an armature
> winding is toast.  I 
> haven't yet taken it apart to apply the wisdom of an
> ohmmeter to it, 
> however.
> 
> I suppose I could rewind it (or have it rewound) and keep
> it as a spare.  
> Might do that.  But one way or another, having been
> well apprised of my lift 
> motor's mortality (if not my own), I should like to be
> prepared for the next 
> failure.
> 
> What are the best-dressed ETs wearing for lift motors these
> days?
> 
> 
> David Roden - Akron, Ohio, USA
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