Battery management sustems ?

Get a grip man

 

I once had a vacuum cleaner ingest water and go on the fritz. A lot
of noise was emitted and the lights in the rental house flickered
badly, but did not go out. The power points all stayed on too. The
vacuum cleaner was remarkably dead though. This piqued my interest,
so I went to the fuse board.

The 8A lights "fuse" was a thick bundle of copper wire, possibly 8AWG.
I believe that would fuse at somewhere around 500amps. The power
point near the heater was wired into the lights fuse. I rectified the
former immediately. That fuse box always was dodgy. Glad it didn't
burn down before I left. On second thoughts, I wish I had dobbed the
owner into the relevant authorities.

I checked all the fuses and circuit breakers in the house I moved into
a couple of weeks ago, before I had even opened the front door.


--
TimC
Actually, I was most impressed when I looked up into the London sky and saw a
star through all the light pollution. A few of us checked a few astronomy
references to try and identify it, and we're reasonably confident that it was
Sol. -- Peter Corlett in ASR

 

"TimC" wrote

Wise move. What State are you in? In WA you cannot rent a dwelling to
a new tenant without first upgrading the power to include an RCD. All
rental dwellings where the existing tenant stays put must install RCDs
by August 8, 2011. All new dwellings must have two RCDs. One for power
and a separate one for the lights. All houses sold must have RCDs
installed before the title can be transferred. Existing owners do not
have to install RCDs in the dwelling in which they reside.

http://www.commerce.wa.gov.au/energysafety/RCD/RCD_laws.html

Check the regulations in your State.

Theo

 

My problem is that our garage is under our bedroom, with only a crappy

I really hate it when that happens....