Need a MH175 fix [Archive]

malofish

Fri, 19th Mar 2004, 02:13 AM

I have an Icecap MH175 with a matching Icecap timer, It was working fine till yesterday, when one of the 3 leads felloutta the harness!! The white lead fellout first then the other two!! I had no luck pushing them back in. Does anyone outthere know how to fix my prob., or maybe have a useless MH175 that I can take the harness off of?? Anything will help!!

malofish

Fri, 19th Mar 2004, 08:08 PM

Any thing will help??

RobertG

Fri, 19th Mar 2004, 08:26 PM

Hard to picture what fell outta where. Can you hardwire it. Loss the plug? Any Pics of problem.

malofish

Fri, 19th Mar 2004, 08:35 PM

Sorry dude no pics!! It's the harness that plugs into the ballast there are 3 wires on top(whit,green, &black) and 2 wires on bottomm(white and black that are thicker) Well the wires on top fell outta the harness. I saw something that might work at Homedepot, I just hate jerry rigging things :(

RobertG

Fri, 19th Mar 2004, 08:45 PM

I here you Hate it myself. Sounds like you'll getit here soon. Going out to see what I need to do about my lighting....

malofish

Fri, 19th Mar 2004, 08:50 PM

I just dont wanna wait for a LFS to order the part I need!!

malofish

Fri, 19th Mar 2004, 09:13 PM

tried it!!! I think that the piece you crimp and the peice that locks it into the harness are one!! So I have to get another or jerry rig!!

RobertG

Fri, 19th Mar 2004, 09:41 PM

Solder It. Maybe this would help. Wonder if it would get to hot though. Just a thought.

brewercm

Fri, 19th Mar 2004, 10:03 PM

Take to an electronics shop and see how much they want to repin the receptacle. It may be quite a bit cheaper than buying another harness. They should have the tool to remove the old pins and replace with the new ones for you. You could actually do it yourself if you could find the correct pins but it's much easier with the right tool to remove the pins that the wires were originally crimped into.