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CAT EP18KT FAULT 33 THEN 30

help got a cat EP18KT. S.NO, ETB5A25461.
with a fault code showing as soon as truck turned on was showing fault 33 but then changed driver board and changed to fault 30. checked doides and transisors seem ok.Pump motor powers up when dissconnected from system and stright off battery. only have limited info on truck but was wondering if the h bridge or logic card could be faulty.
  • Posted 24 Jul 2012 07:59
  • By bing098
  • joined 2 Mar'12 - 40 messages
  • Kent, United Kingdom
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thanks for your help guys. After a return visit to the customer who had a new truck on hire was complaining the charger wasn't working because it had tripped out the mains.carried out quick reset and chat with the customer he said he had a battery link go on the cat which knock out the charger but he hadn't notice and carried on using truck with uncharged battery for long time. ordered and fitted the pump transistor and diode and problem is now fixed. thanks again
  • Posted 13 Aug 2012 08:40
  • By bing098
  • joined 2 Mar'12 - 40 messages
  • Kent, United Kingdom
yep edward this is true
in almost every case i've had to replace one of those boards at least one of the diodes on it is smoked and there was corrosion, operator misuse or a battery condition (low voltage situation) present.
  • Posted 24 Jul 2012 21:29
  • By Jplayer
  • joined 12 Apr'07 - 407 messages
  • North Carolina, United States
John Player Jr
_________________
LiftOne, LLC
Charlotte, NC
Email: jplayer@liftone.net
and it seems to me, in my experiences, that one of the primary reasons these particular cards seem to burn up has to do with either bulldozing (pushing), housekeeping and/or battery maintenance.
A lot of corrosion and low battery voltages are rough on any machine's controllers.
Check the motor brushes, too.
  • Posted 24 Jul 2012 20:12
  • By edward_t
  • joined 5 Mar'08 - 2,334 messages
  • South Carolina, United States
"it's not rocket surgery"
i may have already responded to another post you made about this but here goes again
code/fault 30 is pump motor circuit fault
possible causes are:
- faulty line contactor
- faulty regeneration contactor
- faulty D1P diode
- faulty pump motor wiring
- faulty head capacitor
- faulty T1P IGBT
- faulty CS3 current sensor
- faulty wiring in other parts (associated with pump circuit)
- faulty logic card
- faulty drive board

so there you have it, many many things that can cause this fault.
most likly suspects would be D1P diode, pump motor wiring, head capacitor, T1P IGBT or Drive board. Drive boards are fairly common with these trucks to go out.
  • Posted 24 Jul 2012 12:52
  • By Jplayer
  • joined 12 Apr'07 - 407 messages
  • North Carolina, United States
John Player Jr
_________________
LiftOne, LLC
Charlotte, NC
Email: jplayer@liftone.net

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