Unbelievable bad luck.
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Unbelievable bad luck.
For those of you that think I moan incessantly, here's proof my luck is appalling.
Ten days ago I bought a cheap garden shredder from B&Q, Chinese made. Should have known better, it blew every fuse I put in it, and refused to run, so back it went.
I then splashed out for a Makita, with two year warranty, from Axminster Tools. It arrived next day, plugged in and away it went, backwards, forwards, fine. It sat inside awaiting finer weather.
Today I took it in the garden, and set it up, but all I got was a flashing red light, "machine has a problem which it cannot recover from, please clear manually".
Opened it up: nothing in it, as I suspected.
So I now have to arrange it's return tomorrow.
How on EARTH can two machines, brand new, BOTH be faulty for me?
Ten days ago I bought a cheap garden shredder from B&Q, Chinese made. Should have known better, it blew every fuse I put in it, and refused to run, so back it went.
I then splashed out for a Makita, with two year warranty, from Axminster Tools. It arrived next day, plugged in and away it went, backwards, forwards, fine. It sat inside awaiting finer weather.
Today I took it in the garden, and set it up, but all I got was a flashing red light, "machine has a problem which it cannot recover from, please clear manually".
Opened it up: nothing in it, as I suspected.
So I now have to arrange it's return tomorrow.
How on EARTH can two machines, brand new, BOTH be faulty for me?
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Exactly @ #4.
Alcy, I'm sorry to hear that.
I knew someone who used to say that black cloud always followed him around everywhere. Anything he touched just shattered into pieces!
Alcy, I'm sorry to hear that.
I knew someone who used to say that black cloud always followed him around everywhere. Anything he touched just shattered into pieces!
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Dark clouds bring waters, when the bright bring none. - John Bunyan, The Pilgrim's Progress.
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“I went down to the river,
I set down on the bank.
I tried to think but couldn't,
So I jumped in and sank.”
― Langston Hughes
Now I can tell him without the help of Plgrim's Progress that:
“You don't drown by falling in the water; you drown by staying there.”
― Edwin Louis Cole
...but it doesn't mean he'd listen.
I don't know him any longer. I don't think I ever did; I mean, well enough. I don't think he ever knew himself that well either. That would have been the part of his compulsive 'dark cloud' problem.
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Update:
It works perfectly when plugged into a socket in the main house.
It won't work when plugged into one in the utility, or garage
I'll be asking Makita for advice tomorrow. Plugging it in inside the house means the cable is no longer long enough, plus it's too cold to have a door or windows open.
It might be something to do with volts drop, but it must be BLOODY sensitive......
It works perfectly when plugged into a socket in the main house.
It won't work when plugged into one in the utility, or garage
I'll be asking Makita for advice tomorrow. Plugging it in inside the house means the cable is no longer long enough, plus it's too cold to have a door or windows open.
It might be something to do with volts drop, but it must be BLOODY sensitive......
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Update:
It works perfectly when plugged into a socket in the main house.
It won't work when plugged into one in the utility, or garage
I'll be asking Makita for advice tomorrow. Plugging it in inside the house means the cable is no longer long enough, plus it's too cold to have a door or windows open.
It might be something to do with volts drop, but it must be BLOODY sensitive......
It works perfectly when plugged into a socket in the main house.
It won't work when plugged into one in the utility, or garage
I'll be asking Makita for advice tomorrow. Plugging it in inside the house means the cable is no longer long enough, plus it's too cold to have a door or windows open.
It might be something to do with volts drop, but it must be BLOODY sensitive......
Overloads on devices like this are usually half an amp or less. So it is designed to be sensitive. Probably means the supply to the garage isn't big enough
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So a smaller cable, ran the same distance? That will give you MORE volt drop.....
You have proved the machine works. Take two items the machine and something else and plug in to the same outlet at the same time
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The cable on the extension lead should (he says) be good for 13A without significant volt drop. All I was trying to establish was if the issue lied with the garage wiring or not.
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However, the volt drop will be greater on a smaller cable than the garage cable (providing it is adequately sized and should be bigger than the 1.50mm. ...). So not really proving much.
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The instruction booklet says that any extension lead must be of 2.5mm sq cross sectional area...not many are that.
It also talks about volts drop on over-long extension leads. The one I have is 1.5mm sq only.
This device is 2500W, so on 230V, that's 10.86Amps, should be well within the acceptable range. UNLESS it has a large starting current?
I'll post what Makita say tomorrow. If I'm not satisfied, back it goes and I'll have to find £100 more for the Bosch.
What I can't get my head round is how I'm getting enough volts drop on a 2.5mm sq hard-wired spur, to make it not want to work.
And why the sockets in the outer buildings, boiler-house, porch and utility, ALL on the SAME ring as those in the house, just refuse to work?
Decent MK sockets too.
It also talks about volts drop on over-long extension leads. The one I have is 1.5mm sq only.
This device is 2500W, so on 230V, that's 10.86Amps, should be well within the acceptable range. UNLESS it has a large starting current?
I'll post what Makita say tomorrow. If I'm not satisfied, back it goes and I'll have to find £100 more for the Bosch.
What I can't get my head round is how I'm getting enough volts drop on a 2.5mm sq hard-wired spur, to make it not want to work.
And why the sockets in the outer buildings, boiler-house, porch and utility, ALL on the SAME ring as those in the house, just refuse to work?
Decent MK sockets too.
Last edited by alcazar; 07 March 2016 at 09:31 AM.
#25
If it is specifying a 2.5 flex then it will have a large starting current and will be sensitive to volt drop etc.
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Are you out in the middle of nowhere?