Hi Tim,
I am actually looking for the contacts for the contactors. Both of
my comutacar contactors have bad contacts. I took the contactors
apart to try to clean up the contacts, but the silver contacts are
eroded away.
What really killed the contactors, was the movable contact that is
screwed to the relay armature unscrewed itself, and decided to make a
nice path to ground, while the car was running, spark spark, burn
burn!
If your contactor is in good shape, I would be happy to purchase it
from you.
The company I was trying to purchase contacts from today SMH inc,
refused to sell to me because I am not a dealer. I told them I would
be happy to pay retail, but they would still not sell to me, bummer.
So my quest for contacts continues...........
Take Care,
Louie from NJ
- In C-Car@y..., Tim Dunning <tdunning@c...> wrote:
Hi,
I'm not sure if you are looking for the parallel/series contactor
for Commuta
-Car, but I think I have a unit that may be just that in my junk
box. I will
not be able to look for it until Friday, but will let you know what
it seems
to be.
Thanks,
Tim
Thanks for the info Ross. I just found out tonight that the
contacts
for the citicar and the comutacar are different! My comutacar
contacts have a much longer t section where the wiring connects. I
have had no luck so far finding a dealer with contacts. I found a
fork lift company on the internet with a on line catalogue and
found
a match for 1 of the stationary contacts. I had never noticed that
there is a right and left contact. each contact has a "flag"
section
that is larger on opposite sides. This is the area where the
ceramic
spacer mounts. The online catalogue has measurements which matched
my
1 contact exactly, just need to match the other 1, so far cannot
find
it.
I will contact the company tommorow, and hopefully find a match.
When I get the proper contacts, I will post the part numbers.
Hopefully, then no 1 will have to go through the crap I have gone
through trying to locate contacts for the contactor.
Take Care All,
Louie (aka Electric Lou) LoL
- In C-Car@y..., dconrad@d... wrote:
Well this is what we found out.
The replacements we found were identical to the old parts.
Oddly
they were from a brand new contactor assembly, so new the
forklift
parts guy could
only find one distributor that had started selling them. They
were
made by Caterpillar or Daewoo and we found them in an Entroupa
Parts
Catalogue.
Every distributor had a different ID number on them, of which
there
were about 12. Since the contactor assembly used on the Citicar
was
made by HB
electric, also search under HB Prestolite.
Our 300 amp fuse is good as new so we haven't had to look
for
any.
Somehow we want to include a fuse between the batteries and the
contactor incase
of problems.
-Ross Conrad
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