George Carlin
More fun on the house front this week with a simultaneous loss of both AC and DC power on Wednesday. I'll put my hand up for the AC problem as I had run an extension cord down to the chicks and some rain had shorted neutral and ground, enough to trigger the RCD on that circuit. Whoops. The pain of it is that the light had been turned off for a few days anyway - so it's not live, and it's not dangerous, but thanks to our regs the whole circuit becomes stuffed. Good one, regs!
The DC problem is more interesting. Apparently we have the "Rolls Royce" of inverters, and the panels are good as well. It turns out that numpties installed the thing and the poor workmanship has led directly to a short in the system - a bit of an expensive one as well. Great - thanks numpties!
Speaking of Rolls Royce and numpties reminds me of a time in the UK when the kids asked me what sort of car we drove in Australia. They were informed it was a "Rolls Canardly" - as in "Rolls down one hill, canardly get up the next one". After the punchline and a long wait, one student snarled "You're a teacher, there's no way you can afford a Rolls Canardly". Ahhh kids, they say the damnest things!
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| The tomato and chilli patch before the chickens got to it <sigh> |
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