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Ya but I made that fuse holder not that long ago.... Not in the 60s maybe in the past 20 years lol.

If I lived in the UK and knowing what I know I would look for a Lister/Petter SOM I am fond of the Petter PH series and the more modern air cooled listers. They are very common in your country and I would not waste money on a Chinese made generator when I could get some quality Iron from...

Probably.... A cigarette lighter socket lol Are you completely off grid and in a unorganized area? If so do what ever you like but do it in the spirit of the CEC and try and follow rules that apply to you. That 240 volt 15 amp plug is perfectly reasonable to use.

Fire bad

This guy has the IQ of a block of wood. Here is your 900 pound gorilla Its a an Onan NH. 60 cubic inches Exciter cranked fury... limited electronics and dead reliable. As long as you fix that choke... That machine will run 10,000 hours and out last you. Stupid people are everywhere they walk...

Your not feeling Romantic? My batteries be charged...

My best guess is I made this to fit under the dog house of a Kohler electric plant with more available current than I was comfortable with . Its Phenolic so its old.. I don't think you should be using any fuses that don't look like this... Probably a big old EL-8 controller and I wanted a...

One time at work we had to get the plant operator and an engineer interpret a chain of email from a part supplier that used Google translate to order.. Went from English to Fin to Russian and back again. A LOT was lost in translation and the parts did not fit lol Thats the kid of stuff that can...

Good to hear the lights are coming back on..

Ya I can read that lol Rolls off the old tong nice. Germans make a lot of interesting compounded words that work their way back into English like Doppelganger. The head part of this has the ---Long L and its generally silent but indicates a long O or A after the letter--- ( same expression...

Princess auto HF pretty much the same things.... A power fist generator is just like any other Chinese generator.... Its my personal opinion that anything that uses a Honda GC engine in an inverter case is a piece of crap. if you find a Chinese unit with a GX clone thats an engine you can at...

There is actually a lot of lead in 100LL. It causes plug fouling, and the scavenging chemicals add to the fuel to remove lead deposits are not good for engines. I'm not a big fan of all that lead as well in the air around me.. Pure Alkylate gasoline is available with 5 year shelf life after...

Perfectly exceptable to use that wire. Just be sure to make the connection in a box and use the correct type of starin relief so you do not squash or crush the insulation. The wire from the appliance probably has cab tyre or some other extension cord like wire from it. Use a connector that...

I had a teacher from Germany in high school. He saw me struggled with English spelling ( I am Canadian born here learned English from birth and it is my mother tong I just struggled a lot ). A long with learning to play chess with him he use Latin to pick apart words and explain to me how they...

In no way diminishing the gravity of the storms.... I hope everyone is fine. American English makes up new words you hear but often don't see.. I have heard people on TV say " Y'all " but I don't think I ever have seen it typed out . Cool... It rolls off the tong nice and its a two letter...

Rona has a similar size AC fridge thats direct cool for as cheapo as 299 I have seen. A Sepco ( Danfoss made in China )compressor can be had pretty cheap on Ebay.... R600a is not regulated like CFCs and HFCs and can be bought pretty easy.. If you find a fridge guy or you want to tinker thats is...

When you size you do it for the running amps not the starting. These are inverter compressors so they don't have a high inrush Even with 12 at 45 feet and a draw of 12 amps your looking at a momentary drop of around 7% or 8%. That's really nothing. In some cases thats to your advantage, it...

10 is plenty 12 might even be ok. Your goal is to keep the voltage drop under 3%. Assuming the compressor runs at a 4 amps or so Options could be to use a normal AC fridge and an inverter with a stand by mode. The costs of DC vs conventional fridge with inverter is worth running the numbers on

I don't think Stainless is a very good idea for most things. Where I work all the young electricians like to use it but I prefer galvanized grade 5 bolt and galvanized hardware and strut. Then it all rusts at the same speed without surprises. I have seen 1/2 SS bolts mixed with common nuts and...

YA it can be. Used to be quite easy to just buy new acid and dump it old acid and not worry about the dumping part. Cottage on an island makes you think a bit more but I can remember the solution to waste oil was to pour it someplace if would soak into the ground to vanish... Attempts to...

The correct answer to that is call the toxic taxi. Back in the bush however thats not practical and it had to be neutralized with baking soda...

I sometimes got years out of old sets of used truck batteries. The secret was to not allow them to discharge too deep. All they had for a load was a handful of 25 and 40 watt 12 volt incandescent bulbs and now and then maybe a B&W TV for the ball game. Charging was a 5 hp Briggs and 130 amp...

Holy Shit! In Ontar-I-O big middle finger from the province that... These kinds of progressive grants tax breaks for home improvements make a real difference.

No one fixes things anymore. Now you change parts until it works. More and more you fix less and less, Eventually I will fix nothing at all and simply replace complete units...

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Mostly I'm giving you the gears. There are 3 or 4 different types of J fuse you can get that range form time delay to fast for protecting drives with large currents and high available faults.... Why I bring this up.... I remember these big exide battery chargers I used to fix I think they were...

Ya but what if he used a class J fuse? They blow pretty fast too.....

What if you used a Class J fuse?

I started having that problem in my early 50s. The flame still burned, but.... Ya know... Under pressure had trouble holding form....

I have a fluke clamp on that looks like that. I cant honestly tell you what model it is now. I give so little thought to this stuff. When they stop working I hand it into the toolman and he does something with it and I get a new one. Danger comes from being complacent. I catch myself sometimes...

I use one. They are consistent. As former navy you get it. PMs Written decades ago for a specific meter and that meter was a fluke 77 and no one wants to change the procedure because it was written for people that knew nothing about the process just how to tick boxes.. My favourite meter is a...

I don't like Anderson connectors because over time they loosen up and run hot. Flexable cables. I once had to wire some MCCs with a marine 313MCM flex that was wonderful stuff. But it was a weird cable size and I was using 350MCM lugs ( because i was told to do that ) and I used a pin crimper...

Fancy stuff I had.... Past tense an old timey resistance bridge for doing leads wingdings and connections. I don't recall the resolution on the meter but it needed calibration from time to time and this was never done in a timely manner so when people tell me resistance figures as low as you I...

Regular 1/2 sheet gypsum board has a fire rating of about an hour. You can get thicker boards and boards with 4 hour ratings. I think it might be wise to look into that for a battery room in a wood structure and its not that much more expensive than regular dry wall... An Ontario electrical...

I've never used those batteries but I used to get NiCad cells of similar design and chemistry that had cell oil on the surface floating there to prevent CO2 from reacting with the KOH in the cells.. Our cells fail because the monthly inspection says to check the SG of the electrolyte. It never...