Geoffers
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The sentence doesn't even make real sense. I'd connect directly to the terminal like Parthiban has.
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Could be either.
I'd suspect the charger to be faulty as theoretically it shouldn't be the battery because all the protection circuitry should be in the charger. Also the battery didn't charge properly even though it indicated it did lends itself towards the regulator in the charger.
It it's an old charger though, the circuitry may not have all the protection in and the battery is drawing too much current so overloading it.
If you can borrow a battery first I would. or, do you have any 12v lamps? (at least 21w). This will draw a bit of current and you'll see if your charger is ok. Only us a a lamp to test as the voltages out of chargers is quite dirty and can damage other equipment.
Don't borrow Parth's battery though, his has been knackered for years!
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Ghostbusters was brill! Tempted to get it myself.
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Contrary to popular belief water is a very poor conductor, especially at low voltages. If it is rainwater causing the flood without salt in it then it will be even less conductive. Rainwater is fairly pure so it's just the dirt and other things it's picked up along the way looking at this image. It's the imputiries and other stuff in water that conducts.
It's much easier for current to flow down the wires through the lamp and back to the battery than through the water, even across the battery terminals so the circuit is acting as it normally would. Even if there is some flowing across it won't be a large amount. (It willl still drain your battery quicker than normal of course)
This applies to plan circuits only as the electronics circuits will be messed up relying on precise resistance within the circuitry, as do sensors but something as heavy as headlights, etc. will be fine.There is also little protection as there aren't earth leakage detectors on cars or anything so nothing can trip. The fuses will only blow with additional current which there simply won't be enough of to take them out.
At the risk of being obvious here, house voltages are way higher and it is AC too to so no messing with water around mains voltages! The conductive properties change making it lethal. It is a completely different ball game at these voltages.
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Quality.
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Something good about flat areas - more open and fresher. Probably becuase you can see pretty much to the horizon with nothing little in the way. I could eat that pie right now, I'm starving!
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It does look lovely there. You had the weather too by the look of it.
I must ask my Dad about it and see if he's got any old pics. He was stationed in Lincoln when he was in the RAF and always said he used to love going "down the coast the other side of the wash" when he was on leave.
I was only reading about thie coast there the other day and if allowed to go ahead (and worked!) Norfolk would have lost it's North sea coastline and it all would be land contained by huge Dykes across to Europe. The area which is as shallow as only 40m in some places (by comparison) was known as the doggerland. You can read about it HERE
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They aren't organic as in a lifeform as such, it's because they are made from carbon and hydrogen.
They are great as far as lighting goes but it is their lifetime which is a worry, although this has increased as the technology gets better. Blue a few years ago only lasted on average 6000 hours before complete failure but the brightness would half almost proportionately throughout its life so after 3000 hours it would only be half as bright. Now they are at least double that. Yellow lasts about 8 times longer.
Audi are doing things with them too:
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We still don't know what caused it. Those superchargers pump a massive amount of current in so any of the protection circuits could have failed. I read there are 8 standard Tesla chargers internally to make up one of their superchargers.
It's always going to be a problem with a containment of such a large amount of energy. I still believe solid to be better than liquid or gas, but once the dielectric has broken down the release of energy is tremendous. No different to a liquid/gas fuel explosion really.
There will be a time when there's no power to open the doors but apparently a small plastic card slotted in is enough to protrude them to get a hand in to pull fully so make sure you ask any first responder for their credit/debit card.
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Ahh - The windows10 1511 Build update. As it's a major OS update, it actually comes in the form of a complete re-install. You have the option to keep existing and update, or just start again.
If you keep your existing install, it likes to tell you how well it's done by not destroying your files.
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Porthmadog on Sunday evening. I really like it there.
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I have a test drive booked on a P85d next month, really looking forward to it
That's great. I really want one. Jealous now.
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My mate was the same (or at least he thought he was) but didn't realise it's actually no different than being a passenger on a bus or the back of a car.
Bet you a tenner you'll be ok with it.
As Geoffers will probably attest it's more frightening being a passenger in my car than a passenger on a plane
Absolutely and I'd do it again anytime given the chance
See you next time you're up Liverpool/Manchester way.
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My mate was the same (or at least he thought he was) but didn't realise it's actually no different than being a passenger on a bus or the back of a car.
Bet you a tenner you'll be ok with it.
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Couldn't agree more. If anything it's boredom that's the worst. Take some films. If it's Virgin you're flying with there's no worries as they have massive media libraries of stuff to watch.
As for long haul, you're higher than the majority of the weather and the air is more stable anyway. Plus, the planes are bigger so you can do a few mini laps around the plane for a bit of a walk.
What is it that worries you about flying?
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When someone is taking too long to take the picture:
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There has to be life elswhere. I don't believe they are visiting though and have trouble believing they ever have, but maybe one day.
Just going back to the distance the moon is from the earth, It's hard to consider we could actaually fit every planet in our solar system in between.
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It's one of the Giant seqoua tress in California. Early settlers just cut them down.
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Looking great fella! Not enough pics this time though. It's good going through peoples difficulties with them - makes you appreciate the work gone into things.
Say hello to Niraj when you see him. Haven't heard from him for years.
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Well, it understandalbe. There's the project manager, the development manager, Logistic manager, Marketing have to be there for publicity gathering to post on thier website (they've also brought along the website designer as they thought it would do him good), as well as a secuity manager and the h&S manager of course. The supervisor/team leader also has to oversee it too.
Oh, then there Bob the actual digger handler.
Sadly, that isn't as far fetched as it seems.....
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Bet he would have won on 3-2-1
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Slightly off topic but when I smoked I always had this fear that the airbag would deploy just as I had it in my mouth and force it into my eyeball!
Or a car coming out of a side road at speed or something and knocking my car upside down and the cig landing down my shirt or somthinging while I was trapped - now that must have happned to someone. Would be absolutely agonising slowly getting burnt through.
Right all right though - terrible how it isn't actually illegal to text or alter phone while driving if it's in a holder. Even "driving mode" on Android can have too much to lookat rather than just a couple of big essential buttons.
Battery or charger
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Seems like a bad cell so more current drawn but never getting anywhere, which is why the unit couldn't move on to stage 3. It comes to a point where the bad cell s boiling off as that particular cell is overcharging while the rest are getting nowhere. I imagine there was no warning light as the current drawn wasn't enough to trigger a fault condition so it carried on happily supplying.
This in turn meant the lead sulfate and water didn't recombine to produce the electrolyte causing gassing of that and the active plate material creating hydrogen sulfide which stinks and is nasty! Surprisingly I bet there was only a small amount, especially if the battery was sealed (unless you loosened the seals). If it were large amounts your eyes would be stinging, breathing issues and all sorts of horrible things.
You're doing the right thing by not charging again.
Explains the smell you got last time you tried to charge it too - it was probably coming from the battery not the charger as you thought. Unless (and throwing a spanner in the works here) the charger is faulty and has buckled the cell with an overcurrent and voltage so you could have smelled the battery AND components in the charger.
Either way you've been pretty unlucky for it to fail this badly.
As for the power it uses, at it's highest will draw 144 watts. (P= I*V so 0.6 * 240) but as Parthiban says, it depends what part of the cycle it is so will probably be lower most of the time. There will be variants of that as the current is rms rather than peak so averages out.
It just wouldn't be you if you didn't squeeze that last bit of energy out of a poor battery!