To the footswitch, wire in parallel, but to the winch motor, wire in series...
Jack Womack --- "Gary S. Baldwin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi All, > > I just completed the reassemble of a winch yesterday > and took it to the > field today to test it out before our contest next > weekend here in > Tallahassee. I used dual solenoids and wired them > as shown at > http://www.superskeg.com/wn-1.html. We had several > successful flights and > then had a runaway winch on launch. Disconnected > the power and no plane was > lost. Whew!!!! Check the foot switch with another > winch, Ok. Recheck the > wiring on the solenoids to the winch, Ok. Checked > the wiring for the foot > switch to the winch, Ok. We launch again no > problems and then another > runaway. One solenoid was brand new and the other > came off the winch when > it had only one solenoid and was running fine. What > am I missing? Help > please. This is our backup to the backup winch and > we want to try and have > everything run smoothly for our first contest in > Tallahassee in a long time. > TIA > > Gary Baldwin > Tallahassee, Florida > > > RCSE-List facilities provided by Model Airplane > News. Send "subscribe" and "unsubscribe" requests > to [EMAIL PROTECTED] __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Greetings - send holiday greetings for Easter, Passover http://greetings.yahoo.com/ RCSE-List facilities provided by Model Airplane News. Send "subscribe" and "unsubscribe" requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
