Part way through a mowing my electric mower trips breakers deck is clean

SOURCE: My electric lawn mower starts briefly and then trips the circuit

check cord from plug to the electric motor.if it has a reset or breaker check for damage. if no obvious damage problem is electric motor.may be cheaper to buy new 1

SOURCE: My Cub Cadet 2135 PTO won't engage.

i had the same thing happen
found that the on/off switch had come unplugged from the wire harness just below the switch
had to attach the wires to something underneath so the weight did not pull the wires down and taped the two switches together to prevent it from pulling apart
it needs some kind of clip to hold them together
hope that this works for you


jo

Steve Oakes

• 234 Answers
• Posted on Jul 19, 2009

SOURCE: electric lawn mower tripped the circuit breaker.

I suggest you check under the mower to see if grass has built up on the under side of the deck. this will cause a drag on the blade that is transfered to the motor and will cause it to pop the breaker. Cleaning the deck should fix it. Good Luck!

SOURCE: electric lawn mower repeatedly trips house circuit breaker

The breaker is tripping because there is a short in the mower electrical circuit -- most likely in the motor winding -- it overheated.

If you have a multimeter measure the resistance (ohms) of the motor winding by putting the meter probes on the two flat prongs of the power cord with the mower switch on. If you get near zero ohms, the winding is shorted -- motor "burned up".

Using the multimeter again, check for continuity between the round ground pin on the power cord and each of the two flat prongs. If you get continuity on either of these, there is a short to the mower chassis. This can probably be corrected without much expense.

My bet is on the motor winding being shorted.

Charlie

SOURCE: electric pto will not engage

had a similar problem. The engine mount bolt that grounded the PTO black ground wire was loose- causing the pto to work erratically. To see this bolt (13mm i think) you will have to lie on your back and look under the machine. It is above the front steering arm of the right tire. If the wire is dangling you will need a new bolt. Thanks for the previous posts ;)