Cable Test
The first component to check if your E-Glide suddenly quits working is the control cable.
The Conquest Optima Quad control cable we utilize is a very high quality cable, but if abused, a problem can develope. It has been our observation that the majority of problems we have seen have been incurred after a customer allows another person to ride their powerboard, and the cable is excessively yanked or pulled.
The cable end has a MIDI/DIN connector, which locks into the gun bottom, but allows for quick disconnect should pressure be applied. If you fall or jump off of the powerboard, the gun will disconnect from the cable, and the board will stop. Severe pulling on the cable over time can result in a connection break on the end of the cable where it plugs into the gun. The cables are made with stress relief to minimize this problem, but it can happen.
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| 2. Lay the powerboard on a work platform upside down, and remove the four allen bolts that hold the electronics in place. |
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| 3. Remove the four allen bolts completely from the fin plate before lifting it up. All inputs can be seen once the fin plate is lifted. You will see two wires coming from the battery pack and plugged into red + and black - on the pc board. You will see the two motor wires coming from the motor plugged into the "1" and "2" on the pc board. You will see the cable end, plugged into an adapter with four wires, and a separate red wire from the cable end which connects to the red + battery plug. |
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| 4. The separate single wire with the bullet connector is the on/off input. |
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| 5. First, check each wire in the cable. Unplug the cable from the pigtail adapter on the pc board (pigtail has four green wires). Looking at the cable end (where it plugs into the gun) you will see five pins in a semi circle. Each pin number corresponds to |
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| 6. Each pin has a wire which runs to the white plug at the p.c. board end of the cable. We will number each connector on the white plug as follows. |
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| 7. You will place the white plug end up so that the silver tabs show, this is where you will test each wire end with the continuity detector. Test each pin with the continuity detector in the following sequence: Cable Pin One to-----white connector Pin One Cable Pin Two to-----white connector Pin Three Cable Pin Three to-----bullet connector on/off wire (the separate wire coming off of the cable that plugs into the battery wire red + on the pc board) Cable Pin Four to-----white connector Pin Two Cable Pin Five to-----white connector Pin Four The light should light up each time you make a circuit from the pin to the white plug end. If there is a short in one wire, and the light does not go on, you have found the problem. |
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| 8. Separately, we will also check the pigtail, the adapter connector the cable plugs into. Disconnect the pigtail from the pc board, and test each wire from white plug where the cable plugs into, to the connector end that plugs into the pc board. You can visually see where each wire goes. (Pic 9) If the light does not go on, you have found the problem. |
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| This completes the cable/pigtail check. | |||
