<div dir="ltr">Hi Alan, couple of questions,, I don't understand what you mean by "Changing the red and black? when you say "put the probe on the side one and middle one and should get 5V, what position should the potentiometer be in? neutral or full ahead or astearn? <div>also, when I energise the potentiometer, the motor just goes full tilt in one direction </div><div>so I assume it has to be energised to look for that reading?</div><div><br></div><div>Rick</div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, Sep 29, 2025 at 12:35 PM Alan James via Personal_Submersibles <<a href="mailto:personal_submersibles@psubs.org">personal_submersibles@psubs.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">Rick, you can just try out the wires in different positions, you won't do any damage.<div>Normally you have a black & a red wire & they go on the far left & far right pin, and a coloured wire goes on the middle pin. </div><div>Start with the coloured wire in the middle first & change the red and black.</div><div>If that fails you can check that the potentiometer is working with a multi meter.</div><div>If you put the probe of the meter on one of the outside pins & the other probe on the middle pin, you should see the voltage vary from 0 to 5V. Or sometimes 0-3.5V.</div><div>You could look inside the black box & see if the wires have come off in there.</div><div>All the best.</div><div>Alan<br><br><div id="m_-249086529062191320ymail_android_signature"><a id="m_-249086529062191320ymail_android_signature_link" href="https://mail.onelink.me/107872968?pid=nativeplacement&c=US_Acquisition_YMktg_315_SearchOrgConquer_EmailSignature&af_sub1=Acquisition&af_sub2=US_YMktg&af_sub3=&af_sub4=100002039&af_sub5=C01_Email_Static_&af_ios_store_cpp=0c38e4b0-a27e-40f9-a211-f4e2de32ab91&af_android_url=https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.yahoo.mobile.client.android.mail&listing=search_organize_conquer" target="_blank">Yahoo Mail: Search, organise, conquer</a></div> <br> <blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 20px"> <div style="font-family:Roboto,sans-serif;color:rgb(109,0,246)"> <div>On Tue, 30 Sept 2025 at 11:23 am, Rick Patton via Personal_Submersibles</div><div><<a href="mailto:personal_submersibles@psubs.org" target="_blank">personal_submersibles@psubs.org</a>> wrote:</div> </div> <div style="padding:10px 0px 0px 20px;margin:10px 0px 0px;border-left:1px solid rgb(109,0,246)"> _______________________________________________<br clear="none">Personal_Submersibles mailing list<br clear="none"><a shape="rect" href="mailto:Personal_Submersibles@psubs.org" target="_blank">Personal_Submersibles@psubs.org</a><br clear="none"><a shape="rect" href="http://www.psubs.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/personal_submersibles" target="_blank">http://www.psubs.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/personal_submersibles</a><br clear="none"> </div> </blockquote></div>_______________________________________________<br>
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