khoonie
Seaman
- Joined
- Jun 22, 2005
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- 67
Hello everyone,
I have had long-standing leakage problems with my tilt/trim system, so I finally found a used replacement and have installed it. It works just fine. However there has been a change in the movement direction of the system. It is a two wire system. I simply reconnected the wires on the unit to the ends of the old wires; there was a green wire and a blue wire on each pair and I wired them accordingly. The weird thing is that when I used the old system, when I pressed the "up" toggle, the motor would move up, regardless of its position and the same for the "down" toggle; the motor would move down regardless of its position. When it reached full up or full down, it went no further and you had to toggle in the other direction from that point on. Now, when I press the "up" toggle, the motor will go up as far as the trim pushes it and then it will go back down to bottom and THEN come up quickly in tilt mode and stop at full up, pressing "down" causes it to drop quickly to the full down and then it will come back up slowly in trim mode.... What in the world is going on? Have I miss-wired it backwards or is it supposed to do this? My original one certainly did not work like this. Any insight on this is welcomed. It works - but I don't want to keep doing it if it is not supposed to cycle that way. Thanks.
I have had long-standing leakage problems with my tilt/trim system, so I finally found a used replacement and have installed it. It works just fine. However there has been a change in the movement direction of the system. It is a two wire system. I simply reconnected the wires on the unit to the ends of the old wires; there was a green wire and a blue wire on each pair and I wired them accordingly. The weird thing is that when I used the old system, when I pressed the "up" toggle, the motor would move up, regardless of its position and the same for the "down" toggle; the motor would move down regardless of its position. When it reached full up or full down, it went no further and you had to toggle in the other direction from that point on. Now, when I press the "up" toggle, the motor will go up as far as the trim pushes it and then it will go back down to bottom and THEN come up quickly in tilt mode and stop at full up, pressing "down" causes it to drop quickly to the full down and then it will come back up slowly in trim mode.... What in the world is going on? Have I miss-wired it backwards or is it supposed to do this? My original one certainly did not work like this. Any insight on this is welcomed. It works - but I don't want to keep doing it if it is not supposed to cycle that way. Thanks.
