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I wish I had videos my performance for a good laugh. I had a Christmas door wreath with a string of a few battery operated LED light which failed. Clearly it was an easy fix for a reconnection of a loose wire. So off I Toddle to my garage in the dark, switched on the garage lights and a Pendant light on my work bench.
Easy job, I opened the Battery/Switch unit on the lights. Immediately located the snapped wire so powered up my electric soldering iron. Then set about fiddling around trying to manipulate a difficult wire and termination to re-solder it. Of course soldering such a fiddly thing needs three or four hands and I only have two. Whilst trying to get a stable wire/termination, there was a 'Bang' and all the lights went off. So, in complete darkness I could not locate a torch to see what had happened. Then discovered the Garage CB had tripped, this Wouldn't reset, so stumbles back to my house and found the main CB in the house consumer unit had tripped, Reset it all and got the main lights on, Then found the fault source was that my soldering iron had moved whilst I was arsing around with the re-solder situation. In order to get the pendant light on I needed to rewire the Plug on the pendant light but found the Plug was a sealed unit so then had to located a new 13A plug. Fixed that then powered up the soldering iron and put it in a safe location whilst I attempted to get the original wire/terminal arranged for re-solder which was still a fiddly job. The soldering iron then moved as I caught its power wire, my natural reaction was to stop the soldering iron from falling on to power leads again resulting in me burning my fingers. Sticking plaster needed for my fingers. Finally got the wire re-soldered on to its terminal and fixed the lights.
What a comedy sketch that would have made for Ronnie Barker if only I had filmed it.
Before anyone comments. I know I could have bought a new set of LED lights but everywhere was shut for Christmas, so have good laugh at my expense.
Easy job, I opened the Battery/Switch unit on the lights. Immediately located the snapped wire so powered up my electric soldering iron. Then set about fiddling around trying to manipulate a difficult wire and termination to re-solder it. Of course soldering such a fiddly thing needs three or four hands and I only have two. Whilst trying to get a stable wire/termination, there was a 'Bang' and all the lights went off. So, in complete darkness I could not locate a torch to see what had happened. Then discovered the Garage CB had tripped, this Wouldn't reset, so stumbles back to my house and found the main CB in the house consumer unit had tripped, Reset it all and got the main lights on, Then found the fault source was that my soldering iron had moved whilst I was arsing around with the re-solder situation. In order to get the pendant light on I needed to rewire the Plug on the pendant light but found the Plug was a sealed unit so then had to located a new 13A plug. Fixed that then powered up the soldering iron and put it in a safe location whilst I attempted to get the original wire/terminal arranged for re-solder which was still a fiddly job. The soldering iron then moved as I caught its power wire, my natural reaction was to stop the soldering iron from falling on to power leads again resulting in me burning my fingers. Sticking plaster needed for my fingers. Finally got the wire re-soldered on to its terminal and fixed the lights.
What a comedy sketch that would have made for Ronnie Barker if only I had filmed it.
Before anyone comments. I know I could have bought a new set of LED lights but everywhere was shut for Christmas, so have good laugh at my expense.
