Re: Golf cart motor trouble

["Paul A. Cianciolo" <paulc@snet.net>]

Thank you Peter for the help on the Golf cart motor.
I will do some testing and then if I need to pull the motor I will know what
to look for

Thank you again


Paulc
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1982 Vanagon Diesel  Turbo Diesel 1.9
GE Electrak E20 and E15  electric tractors
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----- Original Message -----
From: PETER VANDERWAL <peterv@peoplepc.com>
To: <ev@listproc.sjsu.edu>
Sent: Sunday, November 28, 1999 9:35 PM
Subject: Re: Golf cart motor trouble


> > I put a wire across the armature contacts on the motor to see if the
field
> > would draw current.  It was aa small aubout a #20 wire and it
> > burned up rather quickly.   Next  I put another piece of the same wire
> > across   the field winding.  This time nothing happened.
> >
> >
> > 1) Is it possible that I have an open in the armature circuit somewhere
> like
> > brushes etc.?
>
> I'd check the brushes, specifically check the pigtails (wires) on the
> brushes.  The armature is made up of multiple independent windings, the
> chances of all of them opening up is pretty slim.
>
> > 2) Is this a series wound motor?
>
> Sure sounds like it.
>
> > 3) The field windings were marked S1 and S2 not F1 and F2.  I call it
the
> > field for lack of a better term
>
> Yup,  that's how they normally lable the field windings on a series motor.
> (At least as far as I've seen)
>
>