If its not the down-limit switch, it sometimes is due to a dead commutator bar in the DC motor, positioned so that the buckets won't travel quite all the way up or down. Replacement Ducellier motors are not easy to come by except from the major Pantera parts vendors, so hopefully its simply a slipped switch.
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