More thoughts on the Norman 200B problem
It bothers me that both units are acting the same. It is kind of hard to believe that the same thing when wrong with both of them at the same time. It almost makes me feel that I did something wrong in wiring the battery packs. Only they are dead simple. The red wire is positive, the gray negative, and the black is the thermal cut off that goes to negative when the battery hits a predetermined temperature. Since there is no thermal relay on the SLA the black wire is not connected.
I kind of thought that it might be a corrosion problem so I used Deoxit on all the terminals, switches and connectors. I put the unit back together and it still does not work. I have decided to leave the battery on float over night. I do know that the strobe has a cut off circuit if the battery voltage goes below a certain level, but I have no idea what that is in particular. I kind of doubt that is the problem because the batteries are above 13 volts.
If making sure the batteries are fully changed does not fix it, I guess I will have to do som serious trouble shooting. Google gives “Crap!”. In the old days it gave a lot of responses, but now it seems to give sites with google advertising instead. I know the information is out there a couple of links came up kind of through the back door, I was searching for something else. Maybe if I searched for old stuff it would work better.
If anyone knows where I could get a service manual for these, please let me know.