Interesting issue with my problem child machine

[cdsand5]

Lucky number 13 is at it again. I walked in this morning to prep for the youth league when I noticed the sweep down on 13. I say to myself no problem, the night pinny was probably sent home early and the front desk just moved a pileup. I get to the back, no note on the call sheet so I go and turn the machine on and nothing happens. No problem, lucky 13 has a tendency to trip the breaker about once a month so I reset it and it immediately trips again. Hmm, a new development so I pull the RS plug and again reset the breaker and it holds. I look at the chassis and notice the A/B sweep contactor is not looking like it should so I yank the chassis, replace the fried points and hooked everything back up. Plugged the power back in and the sweep motor hums. I pull the plug from the motor and the hum stops. By now its been maybe 2 minutes since applying main power and I notice the front wireway is radiating heat. I pull the plug, remove the cover and find CSM2 has exploded. I clean up the mess, remove the blown cap, test the other 3 just to be sure, replace the bad one and put the cover back on. I plug main power back in with the sweep motor not plugged in and I notice the sweep contactor engages as if the sweep were triggered. I plug in the swp motor and it hums again. As I was in the process of moving the table plug over to the sweep motor to test it I see smoke starting to billow out of the wireway where the caps are. I pull main power and quickly remove the cover. The entire cap area is full of smoke. Great, another electrical issue.

[relearn]

Sounds like a wire got in the wrong spot or touching somewhere. may have one grounding out. Time to break out ye olde continuity tester electrical problems are so much fun

[Tablejam]

I HATE the smell of electrical smoke.

[smurtland]

[QUOTE=cdsand5;493062 I plug in the swp motor and it hums again. As I was in the process of moving the table plug over to the sweep motor to test it I see smoke starting to billow out of the wireway where the caps are. I pull main power and quickly remove the cover. The entire cap area is full of smoke. Great, another electrical issue.[/QUOTE]


I had one on Thursday. Killed all power to the motors to grease front end and table. plugged everything back in and as soon as I hit the switches on the control box the chassis went up in flames. Literally, flames almost 6 inches out the top and little fire balls dropping out the bottom. Killed the power and found a butt connector on the be motor circuit caught fire and melted 2 other wires.

Hopefully your problem is as easy to find as mine was.

[relearn]

That can make some choice words fly out of your mouth!