(ET) E20 electronics compared to clones

[Charlie <medievalist gmail com>]

Does anybody know if the I-5 and other E-20 clones used the same
electronics as the E-20?  The E-15 sounds a bit... nightmarish.

--Charlie

On Thu, Oct 27, 2011 at 4:29 PM, CZ <cz alembic crystel com> wrote:
> On 10/27/2011 2:04 PM, David Roden wrote:
>>
>> One of the more memorable afternoons using the E15 was the one when I 
>> had
>> to
>> reverse the tractor by lifting the hood, tilting back the unscrewed 
>> relay
>> panel, and manually engaging the reverse relay.  That was the final 
>> straw.
>> The Alltrax went in shortly after that, and the controller headaches 
>> went
>> away.
>
> Ok, I will have to agree after using this thing for a few weeks that the 
> E15
> is cool, but very sub-standard. I really am finding myself kind of liking
> the throttle, maybe it's because I don't need to keep my foot on the 
> pedal
> (although the E20 has cruise control that makes that good). It's not
> intuitive, but I do kind of see the appeal.
>
> As long as the brakes work.
>
> But the E15's control system is terrible compared to the E12 and E20.
> Reversing the field was probably the stupidest idea they could have come 
> up
> with; I don't know who thought that one up but they should have been 
> forced
> to carry the tillers to the dock. The E20's contactor reversing of the
> armature equals no problems, and if they do start to go you can simply 
> flip
> and reverse them and get another 40 years of life.
>
> So yeah, I can see why a poor befuddled E15 owner would say "That's 
> enough"
> after burning up yet another relay. The fact that simply moving the 
> throttle
> switches the relay is silly enough. If you're at speed 0 the field 
> should be
> *off*, no exceptions.
>
> Maybe that's one thing that killed the Elec-trak; once they started 
> selling
> the cheap controllers they more than lost on the service calls and 
> returned
> units. The E20 would have been a tank by comparison.
>
> Ah well.
>
> Chris
>
>
>
>> This is not to say that the Alltrax is the only suitable controller or
>> necessarily even the best.  There are others.  Almost any, with the
>> possible
>> exception of the really cheap Chinese sweatshop junk, would be more
>> reliable
>> than GE's 3-decade-old parts - and more pleasant to use, too.
>>
>>
>> David Roden - Akron, Ohio, USA
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