I decided to stay home today and get some things accomplished that needed to get done.
I started out working on the Yamaha G19e golf cart. First I jacked it up to get the rear wheels off the ground. Then I turned it on and tried moving switches and wires and things to see if I could at least make it go a little, but nothing.
So I rounded up my electrical diagrams for this machine and pulled the main computer controller socket off and started measuring the voltage on pins to locate the problem.
It turned out that pin 11, the one that was corroded and I repaired the other day was not making the solenoid kick in. Humm, maybe my repair to the wire failed? To be sure, I jumped ground to the solenoid and it should have clicked, but it didn’t. Humm, it appears the new solenoid we just installed was defective. I did some banging on it and it finally clicked, but it stopped again, so it was bad for sure.
I removed this new solenoid and put the old one back on as I knew it worked. We just replaced this one because we were in there and thought we might as well do the solenoid at the time.
This the the new defective solenoid after I replaced it with the old one.
Started working on the van gauges
I put it all back together and took a break. After that I started to work on getting my new gauges for the van wired up. I was working on that when my brother Tom came by to check on his golf cart.
Moved to the old Ford tractor starter problem
He said he needed some help finding out why the old Ford tractor he got from my uncle when he died not long ago, wouldn’t turn over. He thought it might be the starter solenoid.
I measured things, then used a wire to jump the battery to the solenoid to make it work. It clicked,but didn’t turn over the starter.
I noticed one of his battery clamps was corroded so we got it apart, cleaned it up and put it back together.
Some more checking and I determined the starter was bad and needed to come out. I sat back while Tom removed the starter.
Testing the old starter
Once the starter was out, I put it on the floor and got some jumper cables and tried to make it work by jumping it directly to the battery. At first it wouldn’t go, but eventually it started to turn, but not with much enthusiasm. I took off the brush inspection cover on the end of the starter and had a look. I could see a lot of wear on the armature where the brushes were contacting that looked pretty bad. I suggested he have it rebuilt which he is going to do.
Here’s the starter after we got it out and tested.
Planted a few more strawberry plants
I mentioned to Tom I’d gotten some of his old strawberry plants and he said he had some left over ones from this years planting I could have. So I got what he had and planted some around my potato patch. I also studied the watering system in my potato patch as I need to improve it to make it cover better, so I made some plans after tinkering with it for a bit.
I spent the rest of the day sitting around in the yard until the evening coolness moved in and I moved in to the house.
There are over a hundred pictures that are served up randomly every time you visit or change pages. They are of earlier pictures of interest and also some just to remind me of things.
A Sony AX33 4K, a video camera that takes stills too. What am I doing with that? I take pictures from my Kayak a lot. I found I was missing interesting shots, because my pic was being processed in my camera, before it would let me take another pic. Since I like to take what I call action stills, I bought this camera to take videos, that I could make stills out of, but, as a bonus, this camera also came with buttons to just take stills and that's what I mostly do, unless something is real interesting or too far away for my still zooms. My digilat zoom setting for video goes to two hundred x, and sometimes I need that, but usually, I only use the 10x lens zoom. Because this camera is HD and 4K, the quality has to be real good and it has a lot of stabilizers on it which really helps out a lot for taking pics on the water.
The other thing it has that is a must is a view finder and I had to buy Sony's top of the line cam to get it. This is a must for taking pics on the water, as you must hold the camera as still as posible and putting that eye piece to the eye forms a tripod with your arms that helps a lot. The eye piece is also a must as it works way better than a LED screen to see what you are taking a picture of in the daylight as the LED screens wash out easily in sunlight.
I also have another video camera, a Canon VIXIA G30. I use them both to mostly take stills. The Sony takes higher resolution stills than the G30. That was a bit of a disappointment as I bought the G30 to replace an older camera I dunked in the river, but then had to buy the Sony to get higher still picture resolution that the G30 was lacking.
