Ray70
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Hello everyone,
I'm brand new to posting here, although I've been reading articles and learning a lot for a few months.
So cut me some slack if I mess anything up due to my inexperience!
Anyway, I was wondering if anyone knows of any interchangeability problems between Libby Corp. and J.R Hollingsworth control cubicles on MEP-002A's? I recently bought my 3rd -002A which ran but would only put out power while holding the start switch, the field will not hold a flash no matter how long I hold the switch. My first step was to swap the control cube with a known good one, which worked. I thought the problem with the original cubicle was some cracked solder joints on the voltage regulator board, so I fixed that and installed that suspect cubicle on the other generator that the test cubicle came from and it was works. So now both units are working fine. Last night I swapped the cubicles back to their original generators and that unit is now doing the same thing, not flashing the field. Tonight I'm going to swap cubicles again and see if both generators work again. If they both work again, I suppose the easy solution would be to just leave it be, but out of curiosity I would like to know what is going on because I was under the impression that the parts are completely interchangeable. Anyone ever seen any interchange problems before? Or do I just have a connection problem or something going on here. BTW, the 2 cubicles have different voltage regulator PN's and 1 is Libby ( the one that is acting up ) the known good one is a JR H.
I'm brand new to posting here, although I've been reading articles and learning a lot for a few months.
So cut me some slack if I mess anything up due to my inexperience!
Anyway, I was wondering if anyone knows of any interchangeability problems between Libby Corp. and J.R Hollingsworth control cubicles on MEP-002A's? I recently bought my 3rd -002A which ran but would only put out power while holding the start switch, the field will not hold a flash no matter how long I hold the switch. My first step was to swap the control cube with a known good one, which worked. I thought the problem with the original cubicle was some cracked solder joints on the voltage regulator board, so I fixed that and installed that suspect cubicle on the other generator that the test cubicle came from and it was works. So now both units are working fine. Last night I swapped the cubicles back to their original generators and that unit is now doing the same thing, not flashing the field. Tonight I'm going to swap cubicles again and see if both generators work again. If they both work again, I suppose the easy solution would be to just leave it be, but out of curiosity I would like to know what is going on because I was under the impression that the parts are completely interchangeable. Anyone ever seen any interchange problems before? Or do I just have a connection problem or something going on here. BTW, the 2 cubicles have different voltage regulator PN's and 1 is Libby ( the one that is acting up ) the known good one is a JR H.