I looked at the manual on that critter, and it gives no real clue about what could be wrong. The manual is a POC.

I never worked on the model console you have, so here is only a feeble guess:

If that console has a termination board that is accessed through the rear door, there might be a 3AG fuse on the upper right side of that board. It is probably blown. I think it is a 10 amp SB fuse. Replace the fuse, but don't jumper it, not even for testing. You'll burn up the traces on that board if something caused that fuse to blow.

If that Bodine motor is one that requires a high start-up current, Roger stands a chance of being absolutely correct.

Another possibility is a broken solder connection on one of the traces itself, maybe in the small fuse holder, or the motor feed connection on the barrier strip.

Did you find that small fuse? A lot of people don't know it even exists.

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I think he just popped the fuse I was talking about. He said he read 115 volts across the fuse, which indicated it is open. Hopefully, he didn't fry the trace. He had some other problems which developed, also.

Ian hasn't gotten back to me yet, but I presume he is running manually.

While doing a service call, about a year back, the manager complained that the SPA-7 did not start up the lamphouse on auto, but did on manual.

I checked everything (or so I thought); no burned traces, all wires where they should be, no cold solder joints, but continuity checks showed that the terminals which should short to start the lamp, didn't. I rang the lines back to the base of the relay. Everything was as it should be.

On the start cycle, I could see the relay activating.

It was only three or four cigarettes later, that I noticed that this square relay (one of the P&B KUP-type as I recall) had only two poles and not three!

Replacing it with the proper type restored everything to normal.

Paul was right. How did I ever buy an electrical meter that was incapable of checking a fuse?!

There was nothing wrong with the automation.

What really surprises me is termination board traces can stand up to a Leland or Robbins & Myers motors, as well as your high-draw startup current in the Bodines.

I don't know wht the start-up draw is in the Bodines, but the Lelands and R&M's draw about 25 AMPS. A starter switch sticking (or for that matter, a starter switch not engaging) might fry a trace, especially if someone installed a fuse other than what the manufacturer has cited.

Furthermore, if you hammer it enough, something is going to go *Poof*~ along with the fuse. A multi-hundred dollar board will protect a 25-cent fuse by blowing first!

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