I am working on a 06 CE200 with an electric stop arm. It has been freezing up durning this cold snap. I checked to see if the heating element is getting power and it is not. Opening the door to the electrical system I found the yellow wire that checks back to the element via an ohm test is not hooked up. It has a plastic hardshell conector but it is not plugged in. Does anyone know where this is supose to go? I have them hooked to the heated mirrors on my BBs so I checked the power coming from the mirror switch and blew up two test light bulbs. What gives with this? I thought I knew that the heated mirrors were 12 volts. I guess I'm slipping.
Is this a crossing arm or stop arm? None of our stop arms have heating elements in them and we have updated the ones with microswitches and relays to the new solid state control. Now the crossing arms, thats a differant story, if there are microswitches in them you about have to have the heater in them in this climate.
West, are your mirrors 12v? Have you tested output voltage with a DVM?That's weird blowing a test lamp. Maybe they are using an inverter setup on those CE buses? 110v? That heater like you said I would hook to that mirror circiut if 12v.
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Jim from Midwest says they have to be 12v. So when I get it back in here the heater in the stop arm is getting hooked to the gray wire. I'll keep you posted on my progress. Won't be till Tuesday now.
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CE 200 Stop arm heating element
Posted - 01/14/2010 : 11:30:43 AM
