Cas's thread breeds motivation

[420lse 18]

I was talking with Tony (Doc) many moons ago and was explaining how my 655 was killing batteries. He said that without a doubt it was faulty diodes. Seeing Cas's thread on his H 60 charging problems got me feeling like I should finally get around to fixing my own stuff. Gotta stop procrastinating. Anyway, I went to rshack and picked up some diodes, $1.65 for 2 and went to work, even though I felt like procrastinating

I didn't want to butcher my present setup so I grabbed a couple of fuses and started measuring.

I broke the glass from the fuses and cleaned them out, cut the diode ends and sodered them in.

Seemed like a pretty cool fix. I'll check the charging system tommorrow.

Guess I could have made them a little longer.

Moe in CT

[rickv1957 74]

Looks great! Rick

[whfan74 2,071]

Looks good to me.........will be interested in hearing if it did the trick for you.

Nice job and seems to hopefully be a very inexpensive fix. B)

[formariz 12,041]

Ingenuity at its best.

I have quite a few of the original diodes. I can spare some if anyone needs them.Just PM your address and will mail them free of charge. No stampedes now!

[dclarke 4,082]

great info moe, will have to remember this.

[Michael Bullington 5]

which diodes where these? great ideal!!

[420lse 18]

which diodes where these? great ideal!!

I have to give Mr Ed Stoller credit for this fix. Go to the bottom area of this thread and it explains the diode concept. I simply added the fuse ends so I could more easily replace them if needed. Plus he explains how to check your system. It's a good read.

http://home.earthlink.net/~edstoller/id11.html

I did check the old diodes and they were toast. After I put the fuse ends on the new diodes, I checked them and they were working properly.

I took the 655 for a ride and the diode replacment worked great. I didn't get to check my system with the multi meter (too damn cold today) but when I put my battery minder back on the battery, it was fully charged. Usually it's so drained it takes a few minutes to come to a full charge .

[Save Old Iron 1,571]

Moe,

Check out

http://www.aboveboardelectronics.com/keyel...copy/prod25.htm

These are flexible vinyl covers which keep dirt and dust and direct splashes off the fuses and diodes. They should work now that your diodes are more "fuse-like" in appearance.

B)

[GlenPettit 1,717]

We have the Remanufactured diode covers for these diodes, they are an exact match to the originals on the Wheel Horse with H's Tecumseh engines . . . . . See: Red Square Venders, GlenJeri

[420lse 18]

We have the Remanufactured diode covers for these diodes, they are an exact match to the originals on the Wheel Horse with H's Tecumseh engines . . . . . See: Red Square Venders, GlenJeri

I have the original diode cover but I checked out your store and that's some quality work you've done there B)