So a couple years ago I spotted a Honda EV6010 on Craigslist a couple hundred miles away. It was cheap and missing a couple parts but I got it and to
it to a small engine friend to get it running. We replaced the bearing on the rotor, fuel pump, brushes, carb, and found a manual. It would start
but not stay running and since we had no muffler it was incredibility LOUD!
While this was going on, I also spotted a running EV6010 in Indy and I was going to be heading that way in a few weeks. I talked to the seller who
said it came from a TV remote truck that the had worked in. He said they took it back to the dealer for yearly service and it worked perfectly and I
could see it run. I asked a friend to go verify it worked and pay the man with the money I sent him. A few weeks later I picked it up when I was in
Indy and it's been sitting in my shop for a year and a half.
I called my friend a couple times but I was having some medical issues and by the time I got through with that he was going through something. This
week we were both healthy and we brought the first EV6010 to my shop and set it up on the welding table. I had borrowed a Honda muffler from RC
Jordan and before we even tried to start it, I bolted the muffler in place.
It would start right up but die immediately unless we disabled the kill switch. When we did that it ran fine but had no AC output. . They have a
20A ad 30A breaker and a little green light beside the start/stop switch. I had purchased a shop manual and we started checking things. The more we
checked the more things pointed to a bad stator...big bucks.
So I pulled the voltage regulator and brushed off the second machine thinking that might be the problem. Same result.
By this time I had about a day in dinking with this thing. My engine buddy had gone home and I was scratching my head when another friend came by who
happens to be a EE. He looked at the schematic and we started measuring things. He declared he didn't think the stator was bad just not getting the
starting voltage.
He suggested I put the second machine back together, verify it worked, and compare readings. Before he left, we lifted the second machine up and put
it on the welding table also. An hour later, I had everything back installed, a battery hooked up, and a fuel source connected to the pump. I
pressed the start button and it fired but, being cold, it stumbled and started to die, so while it was still stumbling, I pressed the start button and
held it in for a couple seconds. Oddly, the green light flickered before it died again.
Light bulbs started going off in the back of my head. So I pressed the start button and held it down until the green light lit. When I let off the
switch, the green light stayed on and there was 120V on both breakers. Hummm I though, I wonder if that is the way they work.
This morning, I put the first machine back together, moved the muffler over, and pressed and held the start switch down...the green light came on and
when I turned the circuit breakers on I had power.
Sometimes ya just have to pay for your education..... I bet if I had thought to ask here, someone would have told me this.... DUH!
I'm going to build a couple mufflers and send RC his back. One of these I'll keep for the car hauler..
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Kerry Pinkerton - North Alabama
77 Eleganza II, 403CI, Manny Brakes, 1 ton, tranny, lots of aluminum goodies.
http://www.bdub.net/pinkerton/
'03 Fleetwood Discovery 39L
it to a small engine friend to get it running. We replaced the bearing on the rotor, fuel pump, brushes, carb, and found a manual. It would start
but not stay running and since we had no muffler it was incredibility LOUD!
While this was going on, I also spotted a running EV6010 in Indy and I was going to be heading that way in a few weeks. I talked to the seller who
said it came from a TV remote truck that the had worked in. He said they took it back to the dealer for yearly service and it worked perfectly and I
could see it run. I asked a friend to go verify it worked and pay the man with the money I sent him. A few weeks later I picked it up when I was in
Indy and it's been sitting in my shop for a year and a half.
I called my friend a couple times but I was having some medical issues and by the time I got through with that he was going through something. This
week we were both healthy and we brought the first EV6010 to my shop and set it up on the welding table. I had borrowed a Honda muffler from RC
Jordan and before we even tried to start it, I bolted the muffler in place.
It would start right up but die immediately unless we disabled the kill switch. When we did that it ran fine but had no AC output. . They have a
20A ad 30A breaker and a little green light beside the start/stop switch. I had purchased a shop manual and we started checking things. The more we
checked the more things pointed to a bad stator...big bucks.
So I pulled the voltage regulator and brushed off the second machine thinking that might be the problem. Same result.
By this time I had about a day in dinking with this thing. My engine buddy had gone home and I was scratching my head when another friend came by who
happens to be a EE. He looked at the schematic and we started measuring things. He declared he didn't think the stator was bad just not getting the
starting voltage.
He suggested I put the second machine back together, verify it worked, and compare readings. Before he left, we lifted the second machine up and put
it on the welding table also. An hour later, I had everything back installed, a battery hooked up, and a fuel source connected to the pump. I
pressed the start button and it fired but, being cold, it stumbled and started to die, so while it was still stumbling, I pressed the start button and
held it in for a couple seconds. Oddly, the green light flickered before it died again.
Light bulbs started going off in the back of my head. So I pressed the start button and held it down until the green light lit. When I let off the
switch, the green light stayed on and there was 120V on both breakers. Hummm I though, I wonder if that is the way they work.
This morning, I put the first machine back together, moved the muffler over, and pressed and held the start switch down...the green light came on and
when I turned the circuit breakers on I had power.
Sometimes ya just have to pay for your education..... I bet if I had thought to ask here, someone would have told me this.... DUH!
I'm going to build a couple mufflers and send RC his back. One of these I'll keep for the car hauler..
--
Kerry Pinkerton - North Alabama
77 Eleganza II, 403CI, Manny Brakes, 1 ton, tranny, lots of aluminum goodies.
http://www.bdub.net/pinkerton/
'03 Fleetwood Discovery 39L
