McHale wrapper control box

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Does anybody know of anyone repairing mchale wrapper control box in Ireland or even have a good second hand one for sale for a 991ber wrapper
 
Does anybody know of anyone repairing mchale wrapper control box in Ireland or even have a good second hand one for sale for a 991ber wrapper

there was a man in moone CO Kildare that was very good at them, repaired mine before, I cant think of his name, he used to have an add in the journal repairing rds monitors, I'm sure some else on there knows his name!!
 
there was a man in moone CO Kildare that was very good at them, repaired mine before, I cant think of his name, he used to have an add in the journal repairing rds monitors, I'm sure some else on there knows his name!!
He wasn't Fennell by any chance ,.:unsure:
 
Does anybody know of anyone repairing mchale wrapper control box in Ireland or even have a good second hand one for sale for a 991ber wrapper

Why not send it to David King Electronics in England seems to have a good reputation
 
what type is it, 5 toggle switches?

we left ours in g a allens bandbridge, then bought a new box and loom, old bax didnt marry up so left it with him fully repaired, for him to sell. think he sends then to david king
 
With all this talk of sending control boxs I just thought of a tale I heard last week.

A control box being sent to David king via (i think interlink) courier was lost in transit, no fault of David king what so ever, lost before it ever left this country probably, but there insurance only covers up to a cost of €30 and if sending anything more expensive you have to take out your own insurance to cover the possibility of the item being lost in transit.

Info I never knew and it might save someone else some money some day.
 
With all this talk of sending control boxs I just thought of a tale I heard last week.

A control box being sent to David king via (i think interlink) courier was lost in transit, no fault of David king what so ever, lost before it ever left this country probably, but there insurance only covers up to a cost of €30 and if sending anything more expensive you have to take out your own insurance to cover the possibility of the item being lost in transit.

Info I never knew and it might save someone else some money some day.
€30 sounds very low coverage by the company. When we were at it it was something like a thousand euro for lost in transit coverage plus an overall figure for all goods in the van incase the van was stolen or went on fire or anything like that say.
 
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With all this talk of sending control boxs I just thought of a tale I heard last week.

A control box being sent to David king via (i think interlink) courier was lost in transit, no fault of David king what so ever, lost before it ever left this country probably, but there insurance only covers up to a cost of €30 and if sending anything more expensive you have to take out your own insurance to cover the possibility of the item being lost in transit.

Info I never knew and it might save someone else some money some day.
I have the Sprayer And fertiliser Control boxes and Cables mentioned on the tractor insurance . The cable back to the Sprayer is €2000 . The control boxes are often in the tractor without the machine attached so would not be covered under attached implements . Unless a box is a permanent attachment and fitted by a dealer it is not insured if it is stolen .
 
This might sound a bit silly but it's something I'm gathering the more electrical components need fixing.
There isn't very much to them.
Absolutely anyone that fixes phones or laptops should be more than capable of repairing these because all they really are is switches resistors and printed circuits.
I repaired one myself last week followed the printed circuit and saw where it was damaged soldered a link between the bad section job done.
Now I wouldn't chance a control box but as I said anyone that can use a multimeter can find the problem anyone that can solder should be able to fix it.
Off the top of my head I know 3 lads that I could drop a control box to and they would be able to sort it.
I think you would definitely find someone between here and England anyway
 
This might sound a bit silly but it's something I'm gathering the more electrical components need fixing.
There isn't very much to them.
Absolutely anyone that fixes phones or laptops should be more than capable of repairing these because all they really are is switches resistors and printed circuits.
I repaired one myself last week followed the printed circuit and saw where it was damaged soldered a link between the bad section job done.
Now I wouldn't chance a control box but as I said anyone that can use a multimeter can find the problem anyone that can solder should be able to fix it.
Off the top of my head I know 3 lads that I could drop a control box to and they would be able to sort it.
I think you would definitely find someone between here and England anyway

From my experience of electrical problems on machines it's very hard to get anyone to come out and look at the machine or diagnois anything over the phone. At the silage last year all the electrics stopped working on the wagon one evening. Anyway we tested the plug in the tractor with the multimeter and we knew that we had power there. We opened the box and there was nothing out of place there either. The only way that we could eliminate the box as the problem was to try another box on it and luckily I was able to borrow another box to try it on. It turned out to be a blown fuse on the wagon itself. I asked a lad I know who works at assembling those type of control boxes and he told me that he wouldn't have a clue about fixing one of them. Maybe it was a case of can't tell won't tell but I find that getting information on electrical repairs is a lot harder than mechanical ones.
 
I qualified in electronics and I can tell you its hit and miss what you can fix with a multimeter. i considered it as a business but getting the equipment and wiring diagrams for the boxes is not simple. I'd agree power outage or dead box are usally easist fixed but intermittent or partly working can take quite a bit of effort and specialist equipment. A neighbour had a faulty amazone spreader box i coudlnt do anything with it so contacted King - they had a full test jig with actuators for the Amazone spreader in their lab! £150 + postage and problem sorted. He didnt disclose what it was though and I cant blame him!
 
I qualified in electronics and I can tell you its hit and miss what you can fix with a multimeter. i considered it as a business but getting the equipment and wiring diagrams for the boxes is not simple. I'd agree power outage or dead box are usally easist fixed but intermittent or partly working can take quite a bit of effort and specialist equipment. A neighbour had a faulty amazone spreader box i coudlnt do anything with it so contacted King - they had a full test jig with actuators for the Amazone spreader in their lab! £150 + postage and problem sorted. He didnt disclose what it was though and I cant blame him!
I well believe you but like I say it's well worth trying the likes of yourself first before sending stuff to the UK
 
The box on my Bogballe spreader kept freezing and I tried fuses battery and various other connections . Joe O Tooles in Tullow found out there had been a faulty batch of control boxes and got me a new box under warranty and a lend of a box until the new one arrived . . The spreader was two years old at the time and had never given trouble before .
 
From my experience of electrical problems on machines it's very hard to get anyone to come out and look at the machine or diagnois anything over the phone. At the silage last year all the electrics stopped working on the wagon one evening. Anyway we tested the plug in the tractor with the multimeter and we knew that we had power there. We opened the box and there was nothing out of place there either. The only way that we could eliminate the box as the problem was to try another box on it and luckily I was able to borrow another box to try it on. It turned out to be a blown fuse on the wagon itself. I asked a lad I know who works at assembling those type of control boxes and he told me that he wouldn't have a clue about fixing one of them. Maybe it was a case of can't tell won't tell but I find that getting information on electrical repairs is a lot harder than mechanical ones.


Just on a couple of your points there peter,

If a regular customer or someone I'd know was sound rang me about a electrical problem I'd do my best to help them but unless your very well up on the machine there's no point even trying to diagnose anything over the phone. If that person isn't a customer and I know they have being at it themselves the chances off them seeing me depend highly on how busy I am at the time because there's no point spending hours trying to diagnose something, failing so not being able to charge and know that when the service is due they will say sure I can do that myself I'm not paying your man to do it for me!

Another thing of diagnosis over the phone,

The product a mechanic is selling is knowledge and it takes a lot of training and time to gain it. It also costs a lot of money in tools to allow you to get to that stage, so giving your product away free over the phone isn't a very sustainable business model, but off course that also depends on if your going to get further custom off that person. I hope you understand where I'm coming from and not having a go!


Then off course there's the fickwits who think they know it all because they seen it on google and try and do it themselves, sometimes it works but generally they cost themselves more money in the long run.
 
Just on a couple of your points there peter,

If a regular customer or someone I'd know was sound rang me about a electrical problem I'd do my best to help them but unless your very well up on the machine there's no point even trying to diagnose anything over the phone. If that person isn't a customer and I know they have being at it themselves the chances off them seeing me depend highly on how busy I am at the time because there's no point spending hours trying to diagnose something, failing so not being able to charge and know that when the service is due they will say sure I can do that myself I'm not paying your man to do it for me!

Another thing of diagnosis over the phone,

The product a mechanic is selling is knowledge and it takes a lot of training and time to gain it. It also costs a lot of money in tools to allow you to get to that stage, so giving your product away free over the phone isn't a very sustainable business model, but off course that also depends on if your going to get further custom off that person. I hope you understand where I'm coming from and not having a go!


Then off course there's the fickwits who think they know it all because they seen it on google and try and do it themselves, sometimes it works but generally they cost themselves more money in the long run.


Not having a go do you come across often that lads have been at yokes and when the head scratching strays they ring you to sort it?
Not everyone that doesn't have mechanical qualifications would be considered as unable to sort problems myself included but if I thought it was something I couldn't do I'd get someone in at it.
Everyone has a starting point I suppose and your going to do silly things on your way to getting it right I wouldn't knock anyone for trying if they want to learn.
If it's out of tightness then that's a different story
 
Not having a go do you come across often that lads have been at yokes and when the head scratching strays they ring you to sort it?
Not everyone that doesn't have mechanical qualifications would be considered as unable to sort problems myself included but if I thought it was something I couldn't do I'd get someone in at it.
Everyone has a starting point I suppose and your going to do silly things on your way to getting it right I wouldn't knock anyone for trying if they want to learn.
If it's out of tightness then that's a different story


In short not often but it does happen,

A friend who is a mechanic often gets a call that goes like this" I'm going to change the brake calliper on the van tonight, will you be around if I run into bother?"

I.e. If I fuck it up i want you to drop all and fix it for you but seeming as I have half of it don't you don't need to charge me that much.

As I said if I think someone is sound, obliging or il get a twist out of them again Il help as best I can, and off course everyone needs to start somewhere but the same people need to know there limitations
 
Just on a couple of your points there peter,

If a regular customer or someone I'd know was sound rang me about a electrical problem I'd do my best to help them but unless your very well up on the machine there's no point even trying to diagnose anything over the phone. If that person isn't a customer and I know they have being at it themselves the chances off them seeing me depend highly on how busy I am at the time because there's no point spending hours trying to diagnose something, failing so not being able to charge and know that when the service is due they will say sure I can do that myself I'm not paying your man to do it for me!

Another thing of diagnosis over the phone,

The product a mechanic is selling is knowledge and it takes a lot of training and time to gain it. It also costs a lot of money in tools to allow you to get to that stage, so giving your product away free over the phone isn't a very sustainable business model, but off course that also depends on if your going to get further custom off that person. I hope you understand where I'm coming from and not having a go!


Then off course there's the fickwits who think they know it all because they seen it on google and try and do it themselves, sometimes it works but generally they cost themselves more money in the long run.

Couple of years ago we were struggling with a calving with the calf with a leg down. Vet came and popped up the leg in a few seconds.
When we questioned him on how he did it he replied "Do you think Im going to tell you that after my mother working night and day and going without herself to give me an education"
 
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