Wossat high pitched tone ?
Posted: 08 Jan 2019, 22:34
Happened to venture outside this afternoon (in the sunshine ) and heard this high-pitched whistle coming from ? Well..somewhere. My hearing is shot but managed to locate it coming from the log store. Gut feel told me what it was but I wasted time searching.
It's the Clarke portable car-starting-thingummy-jig....haven't charged it for months and months. It's in the same TUIT list as fire-up-the-generator/empty the petrol from the lawn mover/run dry the hedge trimer/strimmer/4000 other things to do before winter.
Zero on the meter. Nada. Zilch. Surprisingly managed to find the charging gizmo and plugged it in. Charging light came on briefly then went out.
Bob, you'd be proud of me...I sussed out instantly what was amiss...so flat the initial current was tripping something internally (charger/gizmo/whatever). So I kept flashing the charging plug in/out/in/out until there was enough charge to coax the circuitry into letting me plug it in fulltime.
Question.....because I let it run so flat, have I nadgered up the plates ? Guess proof of the pudding would be trying to use it...but then I need it to work !
It's the Clarke portable car-starting-thingummy-jig....haven't charged it for months and months. It's in the same TUIT list as fire-up-the-generator/empty the petrol from the lawn mover/run dry the hedge trimer/strimmer/4000 other things to do before winter.
Zero on the meter. Nada. Zilch. Surprisingly managed to find the charging gizmo and plugged it in. Charging light came on briefly then went out.
Bob, you'd be proud of me...I sussed out instantly what was amiss...so flat the initial current was tripping something internally (charger/gizmo/whatever). So I kept flashing the charging plug in/out/in/out until there was enough charge to coax the circuitry into letting me plug it in fulltime.
Question.....because I let it run so flat, have I nadgered up the plates ? Guess proof of the pudding would be trying to use it...but then I need it to work !