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TAF - Thing Motor and Bookcase

By veejay

6 years ago



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#1 6 years ago

I’ve been working on this all day trying to solve the problem to no avail. I’d appreciate help of pinsiders familiar with TAF.

Thing motor no longer has enough power to lift up, not a gearbox issue.

When I run the thing test, both the “bookcase” and the “thing” motors both go at the same time, which is too much load and the “thing hand” hasn’t got enough juice to lift.

The bookcase eventually stops and then “things hand” can easy motor up and back.

I can see a stray wire on the A-15340 motor board that feeds both devices but I don’t know where it should go. I feel like this is the problem.

It’s the grey yellow wire coming out of the lower connector. See photo attached.

What should I do?

VJ

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#2 6 years ago

I don't think the extra grey yellow wire is needed but maybe an Addams owner can confirm.

1)Try reseating the ribbon cables.

2)Maybe the motor board has an issue.
Possibly the diode needs to be replaced or somehow the 2 motor blue wires are connected.

3)At J122 in the backbox main board A grey yellow goes to pin 5 and 8.With the connector removed these 2 pins should have continuity.
Pin 1 a blue brown wire(thing) and pin 3(bookcase) blue orange should not have continuity.It would cause them both to work.

#3 6 years ago

Thanks bballfan. J122 seems to be as you described. See attached.

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