increasing multimeter fuse rating

[Specialist]

Thanks mate, nicely found. Just love when people don't give all the information you need.

 

[ruston]

Well I think it was a bit of embarressment really. To be fair they were never going to find the problem in the harness, the vulcanised tube just looked like part of the harness strengthened where it went from the cover into the motor enclosure. This is located on top of the step under the sill and gets all the elements. The resistors and caps are located in there; not a great design.
They have been sorting them by changing the micro switches , which to be fair is usually all that goes wrong with them, apart from mechanical damage over speed humps and kerbs ect.

 

[Specialist]

Could you possibly fill the tubes with Silicon ?

 

[telectrix]

and end up with this?:

 

[Specialist]

If only tel, she'd kill me. I'd go with a smile though

 

[ruston]

Could you possibly fill the tubes with Silicon ?

Not really , it is rubber vulcanised over a cut away piece of flexible conduit, turns at almost a right angle through an open grommet and into the motor housing.
I wrapped it with self amalgamating tape , but that is just the tip of the iceberg , the covers for the units are not watertight and most are distorted and allow water and grit into the units. We are on the case though , and we are going to modify them as the units are £400 each and there are eight of them

 

[Specialist]

Hi Euston: Sorry mate, missed your reply. Good business for the manufacturer, I suppose they last the guarantee period & after that it's extra sales.
Pretty short sighted to me, but a lot of manufacturers don't care. They know they won't be around for the long game.

 

[Specialist]

Sorry that should have read Hi ruston, I hate predictive text.

 

[ruston]

Yes , micro switches £8 each x2 for each unit +couple of quid for the magnet that rots off the bracket +£8.60 postage. that is the usual problem.
Sign of the times , but to be fair in the three years they have covered some miles and earned their keep.
They do not supply any diagrams or locations of the equipment though , that would have been a great help.

 

[Specialist]

Now if we were in America, they'd be throwing diagrams & manuals at you.

 

[ruston]

One of the reasons I don't like auto electrics is finding where thing are ,unless you are doing them all the time you get left behind . Another reason is you have to be a contortionist; and at my age that is wishful thinking.

 

[Specialist]

Believe it or not, I actually trained as an Auto electrician when i first left school.
Mainly on Plant & Commercial stuff with a few cars / motorbikes thrown in for good measure but decided I liked working on mains stuff better than DC so changed over.
Done bits & pieces of Auto over the years but like you not regularly enough to be really up on things, totally agree with having to be a contortionist. It's definitely a youngster's game nowadays.

 

[ruston]

I worked on plant like in my avatar . That is an electric face shovel.
I also worked on heavy plant and auto electrics for a number of years . As you say -a young man's game.

 

[Specialist]

Only Auto electrics i'd get involved in nowadays would be vintage stuff, my Wilkson test set & Avo need an airing every so often

 

[telectrix]

Now if we were in America, they'd be throwing diagrams & manuals at you.

or lawsuits.