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raiderz

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Rookie

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Lincs / Notts
When xtc box was being checked over by david king electronics, i mentioned that mcconnel had fitted cooling fans on some boxes. They had it on test and felt that a cooling fan wouldnt make any difference to how the box functioned, and couldnt find anything wrong with ours.
 

James

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Comber, Down
So put a voltmeter on the Anderson plug in the cab the other day for a few hours and got a reading of 13.9v pretty much all the time. Even when rotor cut out. They reckon it's the rotor control module which was replaced last year in late September. Service manager reckons I should have a temp sensor on the tank but I don't. Thinking that the oil is getting too hot and causing the module to switch off the rotor. How often do people change the oil in the tank? Mcconnel say every two years. What oil would you use to replace it with? Dealer going to talk to mcconnel to see if they come up with something.
 

Lofty1984

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South wales
So put a voltmeter on the Anderson plug in the cab the other day for a few hours and got a reading of 13.9v pretty much all the time. Even when rotor cut out. They reckon it's the rotor control module which was replaced last year in late September. Service manager reckons I should have a temp sensor on the tank but I don't. Thinking that the oil is getting too hot and causing the module to switch off the rotor. How often do people change the oil in the tank? Mcconnel say every two years. What oil would you use to replace it with? Dealer going to talk to mcconnel to see if they come up with something.
Have you got an oil cooler on it?
 

Lofty1984

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South wales
Ah only ask as @Rhod925 was having issues with his and it tuned out the oil was too hot McConnell answer was his machine was not designed to run all day non stop :rolleyes:
Fitted a cooler to it and it's been ok since
 

raiderz

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County Durham
I got a 6570T in June 2015 fitted with cooler and I was always wondering why the oil was so hot, always thought the cooler was wired via the Revolution screen as it was never running when I turned the tractor off. In October 2016 I took machine in for some insurance work and I was amazed when the fitter rang me and asked about the cooler, I said I had never noticed it was on, he said the wire from the cooler should of had another wire to the battery and it had been cut off. Machine been great since that wire had been fitted. It shows you that even when the machine is dealer fitted sometimes things can be omitted accidentally.
 
So put a voltmeter on the Anderson plug in the cab the other day for a few hours and got a reading of 13.9v pretty much all the time. Even when rotor cut out. They reckon it's the rotor control module which was replaced last year in late September. Service manager reckons I should have a temp sensor on the tank but I don't. Thinking that the oil is getting too hot and causing the module to switch off the rotor. How often do people change the oil in the tank? Mcconnel say every two years. What oil would you use to replace it with? Dealer going to talk to mcconnel to see if they come up with something.
How hot is your oil?
I have a cooler on mine and on a warm day in heavy going the oil tank wont get hotter than bathwater (40ish degrees),but my xtc box still slows down
 

MrTrim

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Arable Farmer
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Hampshire
Got a similar problem to you. Running a mcconnel 6470t on a 6480 at 1000 PTO. After around 1 hr, joystick movements become slower and rotor cuts out. Tried it on a 6495 which has twin alternators and same still happens. No option of eco pto!
Multipin plug gets warm on xtc box(MK2). Cleaned contacts but still same.
Just sent box to be checked out and all ok, so now ordered new loom from xtc box to machine but apparently non available until September !
Someone else was having similar problems on another thread last week.
Be interested if you find a cure.
We've had exactly the same problem as you guys on a new 6080vfr with revolution controls and after about a year of changing tractor batteries, uprating alternators, swapping the machine around tractors in the yard all with no improvement the dealer eventually came out with a new wiring loom for the trimmer and that cured it straight away. They apologised for our year of verge mowing with an intermittent flail and explained that they had had the same issue with a number of new machines and it had taken them that long to trace what was causing them to do it! I thought that was pretty fair enough on their part and since they fixed it probably two seasons ago she's now been good as gold! You'd almost say McConnell aught to step in with a full factory recall on them though the way things are looking on here, let's not hold our breath on that though eh!!
 

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