oldtown169 said:
When I turn on the CA it says Ver3 Prlm5 is this the firmware?
Yes. It won't affect this problem, but you should move up to P6 at your earliest opportunity to get to the contemporary supported version.
oldtown169 said:
Ebrakes are connected to the controller.
You need to connect your ebrakes to the V3 instead.
Using V3 auto-cruise without the ebrake input is very dangerous as you discovered.
In your present configuration, the CA cannot tell that the ebrakes have been applied and so the auto-cruise remains engaged. If you examine the
Throttle OUT field on the diagnostic screen with auto-cruise engaged, you will see that the throttle voltage to the controller is unchanged when you apply the brakes. The ebrakes are instead cutting the controller power downstream, so when they are released the auto-cruise throttle setting immediately takes effect.
By attaching the ebrakes to the CA, applying them will cause the
Throttle OUT voltage will go to the
ThrO->BrakeOut voltage (typically 0v) to stop the motor and (importantly) cruise will disengage.
Hmmm - guess this deserves a caveat in the Guide......