Nebraska, The land of corn and cattle | tmrand - 5/24/2016 22:36 He stated on the first thread that his Dad started the well and then turned on the pivot before driving to see it move..........so yes I think the control panel must be at the well instead of on the actual pivot point. There must be some of the control wiring underground. I still think if the safety gets wired up correctly or perhaps changed to a Valley/Zimmatic design this would never happen. I too though have heard of crazy things happening when the phases get reversed.
Yes, the control panel for all of our machines are by the well, not on the pivot point. The safety circuit IS wired correctly, thats why it has to be in the underground cableing, hence the total rewire of the machine and the underground, theyre not taking any chances again. I did not know that Reinke used a different safety system, but honestly weve never had a safety failure like this in over 40 years of owning and running Reinke pivots, so it cant be that common of a failure. |
Update on pivot mishap
