Re: (ET) Alltrax finally up and running!

[David C Robie <mycroftxx1 juno com>]

Another happy little etrack gets etrackin.   Many happy mows and
snowblows to you David

Dave
Weymouth MA




On Wed, 06 Sep 2006 20:30:22 -0400 "David Roden" <etpost drmm net>
writes:
> On 6 Sep 2006 at 13:21, Kleinbrahm, Robert wrote:
> 
> > I discovered that
> > when I checked continuity from the field motor connections F1 & F2 
> back
> > to the controller leads they seemed to be fine.  I then took it 
> one step
> > farther and actually disconnected the J6 connectors and retested 
> for
> > continuity.  It was then that I discovered that the connector 
> output
> > lead for pin # 36 had 2 wires coming out of it, even though the 
> input
> > side only had 1 wire.  I made the mistake of connecting both leads 
> from
> > this pin out source to the F1 & F2 field connections on the 
> controller
> > unit. 
> 
> I don't understand what you mean by "the connector output lead for 
> pin #36 
> had 2 wires coming out of it, even though the input side only had 1 
> wire."  
> What is pin #36?  How can a connector have an input and an output?  
> Sorry, I 
> guess I'm just not picking up on your nomenclature here.
> 
> Are you saying that you connected the Alltrax field outputs to the 
> same 
> terminal?  If so, that would sort of explain why four of them 
> failed.  A 
> short circuit on the field output is generally fatal.  
> 
> Or are you saying that one of the Alltrax's field connections went 
> nowhere?  
> I think I recall that Alltrax controllers also don't like open field 
> 
> connections so that could cause it some consternation too.
> 
> 
> David Roden - Akron, Ohio, USA
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