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Komatsu FBM18 Serial 15274

Hi there
We have a twin drive old Komatsu with the Sevcon SC2000 controller in the back.

The truck works when the line contactor energises along with a smaller contactor SW80 which sits between the 2 sets of direction contactors for left and right motor (something to do with lockout). However if this small contactor does not energise the truck does not drive. Sometimes it energizes sometimes it does not, other times if left switched on after a while might just energise.

The Sevcon controller does not throw any errors up and states OK.

Can anyone shed some light on this contactor or provide a manual with the factory settings so i can re calibrate the SC2000 controller with factory settings?

Regards
  • Posted 14 Apr 2012 00:40
  • By elektrodrive
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is the controller sending the signal voltage to energise the contactor when called for? what i'm getting at is the contactor coil may be bad or the armature in the contactor might be sticking causing it to be slow pulling in.

just a thought :o)
  • Posted 25 Apr 2012 10:47
  • Modified 25 Apr 2012 10:48 by poster
  • By Jplayer
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John Player Jr
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HI there
An Update

Thanks to the information sent through, we managed to work out the feed for this contactor called the balance contactor comes from the unit, but for some reason does not alway send the feed. We stripped the sevcon sc2000 and soldered the base pcb along with some connections on the card. The circuit components appear ok from the checks we can do but the problem still persists. Sometimes the balance contactor comes in immediately othertimes after a few seconds or few minutes...can anyone suggest if there is a method of getting round this problem. (customers site engineer tried bridging contactor out, but still will not work unless contactor energises)
  • Posted 25 Apr 2012 04:01
  • By elektrodrive
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Thanks to all for the files
Greatly appreciated.
  • Posted 14 Apr 2012 04:32
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