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A question came up from a customer about swapping tenders between similar PS3 steam engines.  He wanted to know if it was safe to do so. I told him, It's not something I'm going to recommend but now that the 6 pin wireless tether pinout is standardize is this something he can do?

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oops, cross posting there I was typing when you replied.

I still hold my opinion to tell a customer it potentially is risky. Without 100% inspection of what has what, let alone the firmware side of this, to just randomly plug in 2 different tenders and then attempt to run, I would have to err to the side of caution. Especially given replacement boards are darn hard to get.

So I have yet to see a drawbar, harness for PS-3 steam that is not the same.  Later engines would have the higher firmware to not cause issues with emi.  But that would be an issue when attempting movement and if the engine did not want to move immediately turn off power or go back to neutral. You would see a current spike.

What can be an issue is a bad board or shorted engine wire that causes you to damage a good board.  So not the best way to test unless your chasing a know fault wire continuity problem.  Seem to be plenty of those with the some of the later release premier steam. G

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