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Old 02-16-2010, 01:52 PM   #4
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Default Re: 36v solenoid in 48v Par Car

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Originally Posted by Tech Support View Post
The down side would be that you would burn up the coil in the contactor. It's designed for 36 volts, not 48 volts. You might get by for a while, but eventually the overvoltage would burn it up. I guess if he's doing it all the time, that makes it easy to get repeat business. It is something that can buy you some time, but again, I wouldn't plan on it being a long term fix.
This makes sense to me.I was not so much worried about the load on the heavy wires/plates but on the wires in the coil when engaged.

An idea I had to reduce the time the coil saw voltage was to replace the R solenoid so that the solenoid would only fire when going in reverse. The rest of the time in forward it should stay in its default position connecting lugs 3 and 4.

Any validity to that thinking?

Thanks
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