Re: (ET) Sickle mower motor constantly kicks out

[Paul Anderegg <tpa2008 gmail com>]

I checked the voltage of the circuit breaker while it was running and I got
.025 volts.  When I disconnect the secondary belt and just run the motor
with the center pulley free spinning it draws 10 amps.

On Sun, Aug 28, 2022, 7:16 PM Nick Skinner <kc2dzb nycap rr com> wrote:

> Paul, I would suspect that circuit breaker. If you have a volt meter, 
> take
> a measurement across the two breaker terminals. I would guess you should
> see a fraction of a volt. Higher voltage indicates above normal internal
> resistance.
>
> Nick
>
> On Aug 28, 2022 6:53 PM, Paul Anderegg <tpa2008 gmail com> wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> The motor on my sickle motor is constantly kicking out. It runs anywhere
> from maybe 5 to 15 seconds and then kicks out even if it's not cutting 
> any
> grass.
>
> The motor doesn't seem to be getting hot but the little circuit breaker
> does heat up and kicks out. I measured the amperage and it peaks at about
> 110 when I first started up and then slowly dropped off to the lowest I
> saw
> was 70 amps.
>
> I turned everything over by hand and everything rotates quite easily.
> There's nothing that's binding up anywhere that I can find.
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