My combine has what we call field tracker on it.This tips the head side to side so that on uneven sideways ground the head will tip more than the combine. It started acting up last year.
Last year I did find one connection that was loose and thought that would fix it. The head wanted to tip all the way to one side when I lifted on the end after the "fix" but worked fine across the field, which was acting up before the fix. So I just shut the Field Tracker off on the ends while turning and flipped back on when cutting beans.Finished the year this way last year.
I bought a newer head for this year and had the same problems. There are three switches on the tracker to sense the ground to keep the head tipped how it belongs.
Figured the two switches on the ends of the head had to be okay cause it worked great in the cutting mode. So it had to be the switch that shuts it all off when in the raised position.
This new head also had lights on the ends and the lights would not work. I got to digging around with the wire connections again where they plug together at the feeder house for switching heads to find a wire to plug the lights in.
I happened to notice the light plug and the centering plug for the field tracker were the same 3 prong plugs. I switched the two around.
Guess what the lights now worked and so did the centering switch.
What engineneer decided to use the same plug for both without any marking to keep this from happening.
When I replugged the plugs last year I must have grabbed the wrong plug when it went back together and didn"t realize in the pile of wires where they all come together at the feeder house that there even was another plug until I went to plug in the lights this year. Old head never had lights.
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