Reverse Breaker

[Rod69]

Made a deal with the dealer, if they would come get my trike I would come pick it up. Backed the Trike out of the garage and loaded it up in the Dealers trailer.
This was to check it out for spring, fix an oil leak, change oil and filter, and check it out.
Borrowed a trailer and picked it up. Tried to back it off the trailer when I got home. The breaker tripped. Reset and it tripped again. Checked fuses, no blown fuses. Just how lucky can you be. Very upset. What do you do? Worked when I sent it off.

 

[oneup]

is there any chance you had the handbrake on???...i have no experience of this particular circuit but assume it works as such.....these type of devices work on current draw.. the motor itself should not draw enough to trip the circuit breaker but if there is increased resistance the motor will draw more to compensate.. thus tripping... if you dont have a short IE the wiring is fine then the motor must be drawing too much current.. its ether extra drag or a faulty motor... unless the actuall circuit breaker itself is playing up and tripping too soon????
according to my educated guess.
for now you can look into my educated guess. or hopefully someone who knows for sure will comment.
cheers
jeff

 

[Rod69]

Yes, now that I think about it the handbrake was on. Have to check out everything that you mentioned. Tried it in the Garage, it wouldn't trip, but just click. Tripped it myself and reset several times and all it would do was click. Could be in the motor. Thanks for your input oneup. Hope things are going well for you.

 

[rhino 2]

Made a deal with the dealer, if they would come get my trike I would come pick it up. Backed the Trike out of the garage and loaded it up in the Dealers trailer.
This was to check it out for spring, fix an oil leak, change oil and filter, and check it out.
Borrowed a trailer and picked it up. Tried to back it off the trailer when I got home. The breaker tripped. Reset and it tripped again. Checked fuses, no blown fuses. Just how lucky can you be. Very upset. What do you do? Worked when I sent it off.

If your battery is a little weak it will trip the breaker... If the motor is bad a new one with out labor runs about 13/14 hundred.. I took mine out a few times , Brushes went bad, I found someone who rebuilt it. Do a search I posted about it..

 

[Rod69]

Have new battery. Sounds like investigation is right. Would hope extended warranty would cover if that is what it is. Coming tomorrow to pick it up again. Will ask a lot of Questions. Just clicks like a solenoid now, will not engage or trip. Trips now only by the red button.

 

[rhino 2]

Have new battery. Sounds like investigation is right. Would hope extended warranty would cover if that is what it is. Coming tomorrow to pick it up again. Will ask a lot of Questions. Just clicks like a solenoid now, will not engage or trip. Trips now only by the red button.

If you have the warranty you should be coved... Also its possible that while it was at the dealer they let the battery run down.. ie; Left the lights on?

 

[Rod69]

Found out that the motor has went Kaput. I do have extended warranty and it will cover it. They also said seeing how it happened on the way back from service they will wave the warranty fee. Very nice of them.ThumbUp

 

[rhino 2]

Found out that the motor has went Kaput. I do have extended warranty and it will cover it. They also said seeing how it happened on the way back from service they will wave the warranty fee. Very nice of them.ThumbUp

That extended warranty just paid for it self ThumbUpThumbUp
My motor is starting to go again, And I don't know if I feel like crawling under the trike and pulling it out and rebuilding it again..:gah:
I'm seriously thinking of putting a Champion [mechanical] reverse in..

 

[Rod69]

Have a friend with that reverse on his trike. Very nice. Beats the heck out of the electric one. Would probably go that route if the warranty wouldn't cover it.

 

[bustedwing]

I hope that you have success in getting your reverse motor repaired. Let us know how it goes. Ride safe.

 

[Rod69]

The motor co. put the motor in on extended warranty. They said seeing how I just had it there for service that they would wave the 50.00 warranty fee. They also picked it up and are bring it back as soon as the snow melts. I feel pretty lucky! ThumbUp