Motor Drive Servicing
Your Galibier drive system was designed for years of trouble-free operation, but in the event of either servicing or performing an upgrade, the 5 minute procedure below shows how to prepare your controller module for shipping to Galibier.
- Send only the round top plate shown below.
- Do not send the motor pod.
Since 2003, the top plate separates from the motor plug by unplugging the power umbilical from the circuit board.
Please contact us for instructions on how to pack and ship your controller. It’s important that you protect the motor shaft from damage !!!
While the motor is extremely robust in normal use, it is still a precision device, and it must be adequately protected from the rigors of shipping. The standard “drop test” shippers perform to certify packaging is from a height of 6 feet. This generates a force of over 40g’s (40 times the force of gravity).
Step-1: Separate the Top Plate from the Motor Pod
8 Screws are circled
Using a 5/64″ hex key, unscrew the 8 screws along the perimeter of the top plate and lift the top plate.
The pulley is still attached in this photo, although (if it is a wide pulley) you will have already removed it.
Step-2: Unplug the Power Cable
This step varies slightly depending on the circuit board version, but in all cases you'll be unplugging the green power cable plug from the green receptacle.
!!! Do NOT UNSCREW THE WIRES FROM THE GREEN PLUG !!!
Current Production - Horizontal Header
Rev 1.02 (03/04/2014) and Rev 1.03 (07/14/2019)
Beginning in 2014, the cable unplugs by pulling the green connector horizontally as shown in the first two photos, below.
- 2014 – Rev 1.02 (03/24/2014): Released in 2014. This version uses the wide (1.3" diameter) pulley.
- 2019 – Rev 1.03 (07/14/2019): This version has the narrow pulley upgrade.
2014 Version shown
Shown here is March, 2014 production board.
The July, 2019 board uses the same connector and unplugs identically.
Hold the top plate in one hand and unplug the power supply wires by pulling the male plug horizontally (sideways), as shown by the arrow in the photo.
You do not need to pinch or squeeze the plug in order to remove it.
The next photo shows the plug assembly after it has been separated from the board.
After unplugging the power cable
Finis!
The 2014/2019 board after unplugging the power cable.
Beta Unit & Early Production Boards – Rev 1.00 & Rev 1.01
Vertical Header
The first two generations used a vertical power plug header:
- 2013 Beta Unit – Rev 1.00: this early version has a single toggle switch - not the two push button switches.
- 2013 First Production Run – Rev 1.01: this version replaced the single toggle switch with two push-switches.
Header Block Attached with "Flying" Leads
Beta Units – Rev 1.00:
10 beta units were made. They are identified by having a single toggle switch on the top plate instead of two push switches.
Early Production – Rev 1.01: these early production boards have two push switches on the top plate. They look and operate the same as versions 1.02 and 1.03.
Both of these versions have vertical header blocks – the green, female section of the power plug.
They are attached to the circuit board in one of two ways:
- Directly soldered to the board (the same way current production boards are built).
- Connected via wires (“flying leads”) as shown in the photo.
The “flying lead” connection was adopted for some early motor pods which had had very shallow cavities. This provided vertical clearance for installation in these motor pods without having to re-machine them.
Unplugging the power wire:
1: If the green header block is connected to the circuit board via wires (“flying leads”) as shown in the photo, pull the two green plug halves “apart” – holding one half of the connector in each hand and separating them.
2: If the green header block is soldered directly to the circuit board (no wires), unplug it by pulling the male part of the green plug by pulling upwards (away from the circuit board). The male plug is the half which is connected to the motor pod.
