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Trojan 2000

rabbit

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ugh i'll be back in a few days. Switched my crappy but reliable dialup internet for rogers wireless highspeed and it's been nothing short of a disaster. Shipped to me with a cell phone sim card instead of a net sim, then once i had it running it promptly burnt out the new router. Waiting ever since for a new unit to be delivered... On a borrowed dial up connection just to check my mail.

Wish me luck :s

luck ;)
 

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Good luck man! With Rogers, you're going to need it.

Oh, great, thanks! :eek:

Didn't start out well. Wrong SIM card, then a burnt out router... then waited for the replacement, days later it showed up.... opened it, and its a REFURBISHED unit (mine was brand new, four hours old!) needless to say I got on the horn and raised hell! :bash

Now I have another brand new one, and it is working well. We have 15 days to decide. We also have the telephone package with them to experiment with too, since Ma Bell doesn't feel the need to fix our bad phone lines (been in bad shape since 1970)... so high hopes for it all cuz I'd love to tell Bell where to shove it!

So... I'm back! At least til it burns out again... :S

Besides, I doubt anything can be worse than dialup!
 
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derekbroerse

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Back to the Trojan 2000, I DID manage to get the serial number before it got dark, the number is 66-2391. Mean anything to anyone? My manuals all talk about serial numbers 22-xxxxxx so I have no idea what they are talking about.
 

rabbit

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Back to the Trojan 2000, I DID manage to get the serial number before it got dark, the number is 66-2391. Mean anything to anyone? My manuals all talk about serial numbers 22-xxxxxx so I have no idea what they are talking about.

Hey our Trojans are sisters... 66-2121

:) :usa
 

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Rabbit, here are some of the pics of mine.... look kinda familiar? :D
 

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derekbroerse

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My shiny new Buyers ScoopDogg for the front of it... 14' long. (and the first scratch I put in it....right above the ears... booooooo me)
 

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Aaaaaaaaand my two (bigger) leaks, the cylinder and the hub. Note, if you can see it, the broken bolt hanging out of the hub... (2 o'clock position, inner ring of bolts...)
 

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rabbit

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Whoa, Thats greasy. :)

Yep they look like twins.
:):usa
 

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Yeah, I bought a brand new hot water pressure washer on ebay, got it for half price because it was a display model and didn't have all its original packaging. I figure 50% off is good compromise for being missing something I was gonna chuck anyways!! :D

I get it Monday, how dare you Americans put your thanksgiving right in the middle of the week! *** Gotta wait I guess... then I can at least clean the crud off and see what's what...
 

rabbit

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Derek, That leak looks like its coming from the planetary hub. There is a large o ring inside the cap.

:usa
 

derekbroerse

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Here's one for ya.... four brand new batteries, solid copper bus bars and clean connections... disconnected ground cable at the bus bar (see pic, top left).

1.5 weeks go by, batteries are dead. WTF?

I tested all four batteries with the load tester before I put them in, all were good.

Any thoughts? They are obviously still connected to each other in parallel but still.......?
 

rabbit

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Here's one for ya.... four brand new batteries, solid copper bus bars and clean connections... disconnected ground cable at the bus bar (see pic, top left).

1.5 weeks go by, batteries are dead. WTF?

I tested all four batteries with the load tester before I put them in, all were good.

Any thoughts? They are obviously still connected to each other in parallel but still.......?

Have you checked for draw between the positive cable and the batteries? Take off the positive cable and see if it sparks when you touch it to the battery post. Thats the simple way. If it does then you got to check out the system for a short. Disconnect the alternator. Then see if you still get a spark. And so on.
On the other hand I have recently had bad new batteries. Or batteries that did not last 1 year. Took them back and there was no question from the supplier. Sounds like they must have had a lot of returns.
Good luck
:usa
 

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Well, I know I have a drain somewhere in the tractor, but that is why the negative cable was disconnected! The batteries shouldn't be able to drain like that when disconnected from the tractor.

They've been on charge overnight so I think today I'm gonna pull the positive bus bar and load test each battery individually again...

The supplier told me they were made by Interstate, I remember telling him how much trouble I'd been having with Interstate batteries lately..... hmmmmm......
 

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Gday derekbroerse, a suggestion i might have it to put an ammeter in between the batteries and the main system. HOWEVER A WARNING, DO NOT TRY AND START IT OR TURN ON ANY ELECTRICAL EQUIPMENT, the high current flow will blow up your testing gear. If its an electrical leak it will show.

I purchased a Century battery for a larger tractor of mine, cost 250 and was the best and largest battery i could find, now it seems its stuffed, not at all happy. There is a product out there that does help batteries i believe, supposed to reduce sulphates forming on the battery plates, how effective the chemical is uncertain.

Best of luck

Alex
 

rabbit

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Well, I know I have a drain somewhere in the tractor, but that is why the negative cable was disconnected! The batteries shouldn't be able to drain like that when disconnected from the tractor.

They've been on charge overnight so I think today I'm gonna pull the positive bus bar and load test each battery individually again...

The supplier told me they were made by Interstate, I remember telling him how much trouble I'd been having with Interstate batteries lately..... hmmmmm......

Yep, Interstate. Thats the ones I had trouble with.. A shame too because I had always counted on them being the best.
:usa
 

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I think, like everything else, they are POS's.....

FarmerAlex, I've had a tip off on that stuff before--Its magnesium sulphate or something (I'd have to check the labels again)---plain "Epsom Salt" for your wife's bath! I bought a box of it and tried it on some crappy old batteries and took some that were useless and made them...well.. less useless. They were still weak at best and didn't last long. It's the kind of dirty trick someone would do when they are selling a machine they didn't care about. I couldn't recommend it, tho others report good results. I dunno.
 
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