Re: (ET) L coil on E-8

["Clean Power Supply" <cleanpower att net>]

 Chip,
 I'm still here. I do have the L contactors. I can't say for sure if 
that's what you need, but let me know if you'd like to order.
 Sincerely,
 Harold Zimmerman
 Clean Power Supply
 Ephrata PA
 717-859-4234
 Parts Supplier for General Electric, New Idea & Wheel Horse Electric 
Tractors

On August 2, 2012 at 7:31pm -0400, you wrote:
>Hi all,
>
>I'm having the hardest time trying to get my tractor working.
>
>First. All the circuit breakers and switches appear to be fine. I checked 
>each one with the meter. What I did notice when I opened up the tractor 
>was a wire going from the key switch to the Circuit breaker on the motor 
>had melted. I think that wire go caught in the steering gear and shorted 
>out.  I replaced that wire which didn't seem to make a difference.
>
>So I'm suspecting the problem is the L-Coil.
>
>When I turn the key on and press the clutch nothing happens but I can 
>turn the mower blades on so something is working.
>
>When I was checking the L-coil with my meter I accidently shorted one of 
>the probes across a couple of the contacts and the motor started running. 
>That was a great noise to finally hear. So now I know the motor is 
>working. Good thing I had it in neutral. I had put it in neutral just in 
>case.
>
>So that gave me another reason to suspecting the L-Coil is bad. I did 
>make sure the clutch switch was working. At the moment I have the seat 
>switch bypassed and the wires jumped.
>
>I have a copy of the book that has all the tractor wiring diagrams so I'm 
>fine there and have been studying them and tracing the wires. I can't 
>make sense of the logic on some of the circuits particularly the 
>origination of the key switch circuit. It appears to be coming from the 
>negative side and that doesn't make any sense to me. I thought 36 volts 
>was supposed to be running through it. But I need to confirm that part of 
>the circuit again since all the wires are black.
>
>Does anyone know where I can get an L-Coil? I have an old price list from 
>a fellow in Pennsylvania but I'm not sure if he is still doing it or not. 
>I guess I could call his number.
>
>Any ideas feel free to email me off-list or on. My grass is getting tall. 
>My RoboMower also broke or it's just activing whacky moving only a couple 
>feet at a time. which is why I'm trying to the tractor working now. But I 
>still have my trusty 12 volt Black and Decker to use as back up but it 
>takes forever to mow with the 17 inch wide path.
>
>Thanks
>
>Chip Gribben.
>
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