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Re: (ET) E16 excessive motor draw
On 2 Nov 2015 at 19:58, Dean Stuckmann wrote:
> I'm thinking about installing the DCX-300ET controller instead of messing
> with the old stuff. Any one have a bad experience using this?
Mine's been working great for several years now. It nuked all the
headaches
with rotting old control cards and flaky relays. I'd never go back.
> Also I see that a Curtis PB-6 pot is a throttle option. Are there
> others?
Any decent 5K potentiometer will work.
> I would prefer not to have a separate fwd/rev switch and the keep the
> normal throttle action of pushing forward for forward and pulling back
> for reverse like the original setup. Anything out there like that?
I don't know of anything. I thought I remembered that Happ Controls made
an
arcade controller that was usable, but now I can't seem to find it online.
I guess you could adapt the old GE lever with a bunch of appropriate
carbon
resistors, but then you'd lose the fine control that lets you move the
tractor by centimeters.
Maybe you could make something with parts from here:
http://www.4qd.co.uk/accs/pots.html
You'd need a linkage that would open the potentiometer in both directions,
but trigger a microswitch in the reverse direction.
I use an old Solectria potbox and a manual reverse switch on mine, but
sometimes I wish I still had the joystick style interface.
David Roden - Akron, Ohio, USA
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