One-Way Genie - Part 2 (Repairs) 

These Genie boom lifts will provide Ivan with lifetime employment.

If it was a "new" or fairly new machine, I could see reason for concern with bypassing the joystick and board. However, on a machine that's over 15 years old and has been seriously used, it wouldn't be the first machine that I've ever used that was bypassed to make it work to save the massive expense of a new board. The phrase of making a silk purse from a sow's ear comes to mind - you work with what you have to find a solution, and I think you did excellent, Ivan.

Great job Ivan, your providing value to the customer because you have the aptitude and willingness to see the customer's side to save them money.

Thats exactly what i did when a JLG S70 was out of control of steering both sides.I'm working in Saudi Arabia as a heavy mechanic for a construction company. It is finally good to see someone in USA is also following Toggle Switch + Relay combination to rig that sophisticated valve control.

NEVER re-engineer. Unless you own it. The indemnity paper was wise. Fixed is fixed. Well done sir !

Ivan, loved the Matt's off-road recovery comment! I watch him too, lol. 🤘

I hope you left a modified schematic with the Genie showing your changes in case someone else works on it. 😊👍

Great job Ivan. I'd say for keeping the workers working you did the right thing.

I love your ability to find a fix. So glad it worked out so well for them. My experience with a over 75 man operation. Any bush fix was always a problem. Some guys would refuse to use it. There got to be a scraped unit out there somewhere.

Don’t Worry about what people say on here. Has any1 said anything bad about the repair in the comments? I’m curious. I’ll have to look. It doesn’t seem like u get discouraged at all. You have confidence in ur repairs and that’s what matters. Customer understands that u saved him thousands and u performed and understand ur repairs to the best of ur ability. That’s all that matters. Great Job Ivan! Please keep it up. I love it. And I enjoy seeing these types of repairs. As you always say “no parts required”. The best kind of repair in my book!

If the customer has options , 9/10 times they'll always go for the cheapest repair. Ive never heard " I want to fix it the most expensive way" . nice repair

Ivan. I’ve seen a lot of workarounds before but they are usually pretty shakey... This, what you’ve done here is really clever and not even one bit iffy. Very well done.

Wow, Ivan. Not to bad on the repair! At least he signed a waiver absolve you of any liability issues. Plus he's happy with the Russian repair! I like it! Great job! Way to go!. Many many thumbs up!!

Amazing. Well done Ivan. Gotta say, I don't understand why the owner wouldn't replace the board given the importance of that equipment. Thanks!

Always good work my man love your video every time , people can put new parts and call a fix but I see you take extra mile to get it fixed (working) no matter what it take , good work sir

Ivan keep up the good work. If the customer wants to go cheap what can ya do? Fix to the best of your ability and go from there. You did nothing wrong. 👍

Nice work, Ivan. I'm sure the customer appreciates the time saved, as well as the money. But to be factual, you didn't "fix" it, you repaired it! Thanks for posting!

Well Ivan what a repair. Think you’ll be back? I think so. Probably after someone hits the building. Don’t let OSHA see that repair Lol. Ivan pulls another rabbit out of the hat. Stay well and safe and enjoy the holiday 😊

I like the final two-way momentary switch a lot more than the reverser+board solution; This way it won't sometimes operate the opposite way of the other lift, and there will be no conflict of muscle memory.

Ivan the genie back in the bottle, up and running , well done, !!!!

this is why the other genie you worked on had all kinds of extra switches and jumpers. when they make replacement boards too expensive, people start hot wiring their boom lifts.

And that’s how you keep a customer! Good job!

"Pine hollow Genie boom lift diagnostics" Ivan says we don't really need those circuit boards to make this thing run 👍

From the components on that board, $1500 really seems like the "we have you over a barrel" price. It looked like maybe they also rubbed the numbers off the chips? (Almost as if they knew the price would tempt you to replace components...) You could probably still replace the driver though, should be possible to figure out the pinout and buy an IC with reasonable specs and the same footprint. Of course that would take more time than the 'russian repair' :D

Great job, you saved another one from the garbage!!

I'd hate to be the next guy to work on it. That guy better hope you stay around

Ivan, if the space shuttle needed a fix up there, I don`t think they would hesitate to improvise to get unit working again, when back on earth ,do proper repair.

The yellow banana could use some Russian engineering.

Best quotes from the 1st diesel video and this one, "Russian repairs for Russian construction workers" and "Ooops!" Very interesting work on this one, Ivan. Nice job!

Awesome fix. Thanks for sharing

Customer's happiness is directly proportional to the amount you charged him for the repair.

Probably could have rebuilt the board but funny enough I had the same solution in my head. I do board rebuilding for a living but sometimes simple is enough

Great video as always!

The only people complaining about this fix is Genie, since they missed out on their crazy parts pricing. Good fix

Pretty sharp I like it, save the guy a lot of money and it's up and running.

Some people worry about everything and thinks everything has to be perfect.

It wouldn't be a PHAD video without a good downrange Russian repair, Gennie might do well for themselves to make you an authorized service contact, great job Ivan, personally I wouldn't be moving the unit with the platform raised with any gennie new or used

I don't like bypassing the board......but if you got the customer to sign a waiver...good. Anyway you've got the machine working.

Both are valid fixes. The customer apparently doesn't mind: he signed a waiver and he didn't order a board replacement in those 4 months. The board probably just needed some capacitors replaced. But it's old. If you replace some caps now, you'll probably be replacing some others next year. Some of them are covered in silicon and the whole board is probably coated: a pain to work on. And it takes time. Probably not worth it. So, nice fix. But what you're gonna do when left/right fails? That needs to be proportional. ...or maybe not? It goes with Genie speeds, so, manageable. But imagine that your car would have buttons for left and right, instead of a steering wheel...

Production now is golden. Perfection later is ideal.

Bonus footage: " I just used this chainsaw to fit a new radio too"

The nest begins. Wow, that board is expensive! Supply vs Demand.

When you get them stuck, put the boom on the other end of the unit and drive it out with the weight on the other end usually works. I have had many stuck!

Wow i think you did well on that thing and bravo its working good and the customer is happy and thats what counts the most so i must say you did good once again and you know your stuff ..Thanks for the great video and take care...

Scotty: The more they overthink the plumbing, the easier it is to stop up the drain. Star Trek III: The Search For Spock. Why is it that modern engineering practices insist on over complicating the simplest things. What happened to the kiss principal? I can fix my 53-year-old jeep with a screwdriver and a hammer and a pair of pliers. It will undoubtedly last longer than anything that was built in the last 20 years and remain repairable for the next 200. Great video I’ve been I love the way you can make lemonade out of lemons. Keep on trucking and stay safe. Happy Thanksgiving!

Hmm. Maybe this is how, over time, the last Genie got all the custom wires and switches you had to remove :-) Do you leave documentation as to what you did so the next guy can put it back (if he wants)?

Welcome to the wonderful world of Hacking and I don't mean that in a bad way. No way a circuit board should be in a piece of equipment thats exposed to the weather all the time. Great work

Hilarious your reference to the yellow banana. That's one of my favorite RU-vid channels. And yeah you are a long ways from him. Lol

Most people don't know about the Yellow Banana with the Yankum rope. LOL See how much it is to get the board repaired when they have some down time.

That solution is gonna stay as is during the current ownership... hehe... 🙂 btw.. if you put a cummins in that xl7 you could pull it out, no problem.. 😉🙂

Nice repair. Makes a lot of sense.

You're the man

I love it! Another Ivan solution.

There is a company in Ohio that repairs boards for these Galco.com Set up a momentary push button to press a button multiple times quickly to pulse solenoid on valve... If both drivers fail. Repair is fine. Good job!

lmao i love matt's off-road recovery

awsome once again

I think you're amazing... Improvise, adapt overcome... Just get the job done... Its how it used to be before people started getting their panties in a twist over little crap...

I worker in the Alaskan bush for many years and one does (within reason) what is required to keep the equipment running and the job going. parts could be a month away and we only have maybe 6 months at most to work on a year.

Great Job Ivan!

Ivan, i have to add....i read some of the comments. Wow. You're right about the last video you said people would say in the comments!! You expected that, didn't you? Haha. I find it funny and hilarious on what people saying in the comments lol

Great Video! Cash Job, no receipt in my book.

Next video Ivan starts a side business rebuilding genie control boards.

Never known to be beat= Ivan.

Great fix Ivan.

Great video AGAIN!! Love the Russian repair!

I wonder if you set it up as 2WD when trying to calibrate it. That would explain why it got stuck...

Like they say u cant make them all happy but hell as long as ur happy with it thats all that counts

i like this one . very cool jerry rig

I think it was a good fix for the time you had

Straight to the point! Nice!

Ivan: Since you seem to work on these a fair bit, any chance you found a schematic for the controller board, so you could actually perform at least some component-level troubleshooting and repairs, like replacing driver transistors?

Sometimes you got to do what you got to do

Ivan, if you call Matt, you get a shirt. Would be neat to see you in one.

Good thinking

I see no problem only I would have preferred that you used resistors instead of light bulbs. Would a varistor allow for different speeds? As far as customized modifications goes, I see no problem. If in the future some other tech gets involved, he can simply replace the board and put everything back to factory.

even with the creative wiring its still not as bad as that other one you fixed

Various parallel filaments dictate speed, electrically its probably less to go wrong and will not fail into an unsafe condition. The waiver is good and a LLC you should have anyway.

Back home we call this the Russian rig fix! However, on the new toggle switch I would have put the R on top and F on bottom. Get yourself a little bonus fun!

OMG! I wouldn't want to jump from one machine to the other, I am bound to hit something before I remember how it was wired!

you are my hero

I can see Iwan that at the end you were a bit upset about situation where you customer push you... Obviously off the record 😁😁😁

Ivan just wondering if those were triacs/SCRs or Voltage Regulators along the top of that controller pcb. Might be worth running a DVM along them and compare. A wild guess as these seem to be the only power devices there!

That machine would be red tagged on any site I ever worked on. Spend the thousand and a half fix it right. Many const companies lease or rent them now a days let them fix them.

Do you think it maters- Observe the written instructions- J5 requires PINS: COM, 1 AND 11 to be connected. J5: PIN 1 & 2 are Model Drive Type PINS 6 - 11 are Model options you want to include. On J5 you only jumpered PINS COM and 1, without PIN 11 (Drive Priority).

You give a Russian kid a hammer and a screw driver and he can fix a MIG-29. Great vid Ivan.

A Lawyer once told me that you cant sign away your rights, thats why they are called rights. I once was going to open a stop smoking company, basically you sign a wavier and you go into a huge warehouse , everyone get a large screen tv, anything you want to eat, your own nice area, but you cant leave for 90 days. Lawyer told me, forget it. Thought it was a great idea. Forgot your on a 20 foot chain also, didnt want any fights.

I'd have looked the board over closely, maybe just bad current sense resistors instead of drivers actually bad. I think I recall you had PWM waveform on them, just too narrow width. to do anything. like very low percentage(narrow), but wasn't the voltage peaks still high? not wanting to go back and watch again lol maybe even just bad solder joints on front/back.

Genies offer you many opportunities to be creative at times. Most times a real headache.

I have an older Genie S-40 built in 94 has a WAGO terminal block to connect the wiring for the general operation. How do you deal with block, to insert or remove the wires.

Is Pine hollow auto diagnostics channel doing videos of Staten Island ?

Great instructional videos. Have you ever had an S40 4x4 perkins (2006) that would not steer unless you were activating one of the other hydraulic functions? It will not steer unless I move platform or am telescoping in or out. Whenever I stop activating a function, steering will stop or continue the way it was going and max out. Has to be a valve/seal issue- but which one do you think? TIA Again - enjoying your videos and learning a lot.

Matt’s Off-road Recovery 😂😂🤣

Looks good to me so pretty much came down to a $20 fix or a $2000 fix.... LOL... sure almost everyone is going on with the cheaper one of the two even if it adds an extra step when someone need to use it and the main thing there is that it can actually be used now and it's not like down the road if someone's willing to spend the money for the oem/factory fix it's not like they can't un-do it or even just watch the videos on what was done to get it to that point....... Also have you ever thought about maybe making some small stickers up with your business name/RU-vid channel's name to put on the vehicles/equipment you've already done videos on bc I really feel like it would help you advertise and also help if someone else is working on the same vehicle/equipment down the line...... it's pretty much a win win for all at that point but it's just a question for you and if you like the idea take it and run with it I'm sure that you can probably come up with many more ideas that would help the sticker idea grow into much more LoL Also THANK YOU for all the great content please keep it coming and I really like the equipment videos a lot you should actually do them more regularly....... thanks again

I got a genie similar to this one. It only goes slow like it's stuck in crawl mode

Ivan you are the mad scientist lol

I would love to see Arduino's replace this type of stuff, then the manufacture can go stuff his intellectual property right up where the sun don't shine. I think you would only need the following (to start with): Arduino Mega, and relay board, you could reuse all the switches and joysticks on the basket controls. Same with modern vehicle ECU's replace them with Arduino's, open source, readily available and don't cost a fortune and they don't require proprietary software to update or configure.

I would of liked to have had a hand drawn diagram for the first repair but I think I got it. The good driver is split at the toggle and sent through the bad driver circuit.

I am getting the feeling that the electronics are the downfall of these Genies. A circuit board in a semi rainproof metal box is less than ideal for delicate electronics. Neat repair.

I am a bit surprised that the builders bother about 1500 dollars in such a massive building project (100 million dollars???), to be honest. I mean I know of building projects where they just write off the whole fleet of cars and vans completely at the end of the project (mostly one year). So, 1500 dollars is peanuts, I would think. I am probably wrong, but it surprised me.

Hey, I have a 2006 Genie Z60 and the steering does not work. The LED on the board does not light up when I move the joystick right or left