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Waning Gibbous Moon of Growing
I have crossed a threshold today. A while back my treadmill started to not shut off when I turned it off. The treadmill kept going at a speed of 1.0 to 1.5 mph. After calling NOW Sports in Arden Hills, where, it turns out, I bought the machine (when they were in Maplewood), Mike the repair guy called Landice. They recommended replacing a harness that connects the dial to a rheostat and the computer board that controls the displays. I looked at it, and it didn’t look too difficult, so I ordered the $100 part.
It came.
Last night I took off the old harness and installed the new one. No joy. It didn’t work at all. That was a step backward, but, it was not an unusual outcome when I set out to repair things, so I called Mike. He said he’d call Landice and see if replacing the whole panel was the way to go. After I hung up, I started to go upstairs and I noticed lights on the display panel. Electricity!
That meant I might not be as far off as I thought. I went back at it, jiggling wires. It went off again. Jiggled and moved some more wires. A click. A good sign. Then, I found the right position for everything, turned the treadmill to on and it worked. The elevation worked. I turned it off. It still ran. At this point you might think I was unhappy, but I wasn’t. This just meant that I had replaced the old harness with a new one and both were good. The important thing here is that I replaced the old one with a new one and the damned thing still worked. If that had been the solution, it would have worked. As it is, I spent $100 to prove to myself that I can work on things electronic. A cheap lesson overall.
