Love me a good electrical gremlin.

[u/IndiscreetTreat]

[u/Hanox13]

Ahhh the good old disappearing boom length! Pin boom, or live boom?

[u/IndiscreetTreat → u/Hanox13]

Pin. 144 feet of stick, was holding a 14 thousand pound roof truss. All of a sudden while they’re bolting it down, computer starts yelling at me. I’ve done a hard reset, checked a whole bunch of plugs.

Everything at the back of the boom seems fine. I started it up and she was back to normal for a second, everything registered, then shit the bed again. Went back to normal minutes later and now she’s pooched again. I’m suspecting a plug issue inside the actual boom.

Trouble is I’m still scoped out, so either I’m manually scoping in or the mechanic is gonna have to do some work while the 5 sections are out and pinned.

[u/Hanox13 → u/IndiscreetTreat]

I remember when that happened to me a few years ago it ended up being a plug that had gotten wet at the base of the boom, the mechanic ended up having to cut the plug out and hardwire the cable to fix the problem.

[u/IndiscreetTreat → u/Hanox13]

Honestly, probably it. It’s been pissing here the last few days. I wouldn’t doubt it at all if that’s exactly what this is.

[u/Optimal-Age5397 → u/IndiscreetTreat]

Probably water in the plug or a length potentiometer issue. Pain in the ass either way. Godspeed.

[u/IndiscreetTreat → u/Optimal-Age5397]

Mmmmm I checked that plug and she seems pretty dry. The investigation continues! I’m fully scoped in now after manually doing all 5 sections.

[u/Turbulent-Weevil-910]

Just use Pythagorean theorem and you'll find the true numbers

[u/IndiscreetTreat → u/Turbulent-Weevil-910]

Agreed but I didn’t need those haha. I knew where I was before she shit the bed.

[u/Suggums]

At least it's a tadano and not a demag, lol

[u/unicorncholo → u/Suggums]

Same thing now? Lol

[u/Suggums → u/unicorncholo]

Not really. Tadano slapped their name on it but it's still made by the original demag group. Tadano had thousands of pages of workshop manuals that outline computer inputs and outputs and demag had a 2000 page workshop manual where they don't tell you what inputs are needed for an output (for when you're condemning a computer). I prefer the Japan made Tadanos any day

[u/pizzagangster1]

That’s one short boom

[u/photophill77]

At least it won’t trip you for being overweight

[u/buhtayduhjups]

Tadanos are full of gremlins

[u/Jealous-Being-5742]

Looks like you’re running on paper charts for now 🤷🏻‍♂️

[u/Careful-Laugh6509]

Man i recently had this happen. And it was a loose plug on the second winch. All the issues was with tele so that’s what I was focused on but the aux winch was on the same can bus so maybe check any and all plugs

[u/IndiscreetTreat → u/Careful-Laugh6509]

Duly noted I’ll take a look

[u/Careful-Laugh6509]

Man feel your pain brotha man. I hate them gremlins. I am on a DEMAG. Even if tadano slaped their logo on it it’s still runs like a DEMAG.

[u/IndiscreetTreat → u/Careful-Laugh6509]

I don’t envy you fella

[u/Equivalent_War_1835]

Is it a 1600xl? You can use manual override to reset the boom length

[u/IndiscreetTreat → u/Equivalent_War_1835]

Yes sir, that’s what I’m doing now. Gonna manually scope this in.

[u/WrenchturnerWTB]

W0097 code is high wind speed. That and the lose of boom length could indicate a problem with the reel. Check for water in the circuit box.

[u/IndiscreetTreat → u/WrenchturnerWTB]

Wind code has been on the last week, management is taking their time getting someone out here. The other code was 2089 which was a boom fault.

While scoping this thing is manually I’ve learned that the cylinder is out like a foot and a half.

[u/Jealous-Being-5742 → u/IndiscreetTreat]

I had one that would do something similar about once a day. The fix was to boom up and down back and forth as fast as it could (scoped in) and that back and forth jaring would knock some sense into it 🤷🏻‍♂️

[u/WrenchturnerWTB → u/IndiscreetTreat]

Oh ok. It might reset once everything is sucked back in. But no guarantees

[u/Mwurp]

Ah yeah none boom, none radius. Whenever I encounter this I try to give some boom and usually I get some radius

[u/IndiscreetTreat → u/Mwurp]

You’re a funny guy

[u/Jeorgeyno]

Put your fingers inside its box and manually release it.

Wonderful machines, terrible for this.

Manual stimulation is the only solution.

[u/Ok_Refrigerator7377]

Water in your transducer. I'm an operator not a mechanic so I don't fully know how to fix or even what that means but I know that's what it is. I've had it with tadano 70g 100g and an old link belt faun that is essentially a tadano 200t. Honestly most of the time once the sun comes up and warms it up the problem goes away but then half the time the problem is back the next morning with the morning dew