Electrolux Ambassador III died and I helped!!!!

[rodknock95]

So I rescued a Ambassador III with a cord rewinder problem. 75th anniversary. I took it apart, couldn't stand the fact that I could see stuff stuck in the impeller, and disassembled the whole thing and stupid me, didn't mark the wires. I took apart the cord rewinder and got it going, but after reassembly, it didn't turn on. I took it back apart and changed the wires to what vague diagrams I could find online and when you turn it on it just trips the breaker for the outlet. So I am not sure if the cord rewinder is at fault or I got something out of whack. It did run before I messed with it.....

does anyone have a diagram...I cannot find anything that shows the way one is wired that doesn't have indicator lights. I took apart my 2100 and Holy crap....a lot more wires.

 

[blknblu]

Here is my revised 2100 wiring diagram with the indicator lights.
The one without the lights would be similar, just simpler
I own both models, and actually rewired the model I have with no lights.

 

[blknblu]

One of my ambassador III's with no lights:

 

[huskyvacs]

It sounds like you created a dead short with the vacuum. I did that by accident one time when I put a new cord on a fluorescent light fixture and I had the wrong wires on the wrong terminals. Definitely just a wiring issue when you connected the wires back up. It will be back in action once you get the wires back where they were.

 

[rodknock95]

Thank you very much....Your diagrams saved me!!! Its working great now. I had the two black wires and the white one in the wrong spot. What power nozzle does your ambassador have?

 

[human]

Yeah, I love the fact that the wires themselves aren't color coded.