Adventure at Home while Alone - 2020Feb18Tue

Adventure at Home while Alone

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Session: 200218Tu

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Previous session: 2016Aug11Thu

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Today during watering my home's lawn I observed that switchboard and plug via which electricity was going to motor was not looking in good condition. There was rust like mark on base of the plug and switch button of the switchboard was also a little hard to operate. During every watering session I need to close and open motor switch for moving water pipe from one place to another place at least one time. Today on that occasion when I tried to OFF the switch button I found it stuck. I was surprised and a little panicked. Then I applied a little more power and button moved and motor stopped. After moving water pipe to it's next location when I tried to ON the switch button I found it stuck again and this time again I applied some force to turn it on. By applying force I found that button become loose and started to on, off on it's own. Then I tried and set it to position of ON. At end of session when I switched off the motor I found switch button merely attached to it's proper position.

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Now I started thinking about replacing switchboard and plug for water motor myself. After some thinking about timing to do this work at around PST 11:30 PM I decided to do it right then. Therefore I immediately went to shop purchased one switchboard and one plug for Rs 150 and came back. On return I went to my room, collected tools needed for the task and came outside to the place of work. Then I arranged all tools and switchboard and plug together and took some photos of them.

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After that I tried to remove plug from switchboard and found that it was almost jammed there. After some effort I was able to remove plug from switch board. Because of some malfunction plug was heated and melted and fused with switchboard. Again I took some photos of switchboard and plug. During opening and removing switchboard and plug I made sure that I understand circuit.

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Then I attached wires from mains to switchboard and wires from motor to plug. It took me a lot of time in fixing wires to switchboard. Red wire in the following set is the one I used for internal connection in switchboard. I took some more photos of current status. I forgot to take photos of switchboard after attaching internal wire and main wires to it. I used back cover of my mobile for making red wire more visible in photo.

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During attaching switchboard to it's place I found that screws were shorter and thinner then required and so were loose to fit. Therefore I went to my room and brought back box of screws and found a screw of right size and used it for fixing switchboard to it's place. Then I fixed plug in switchboard. Now I took some more photos of finished work.

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But because by now electricity in our area was no longer available, because of un-wanted load shading, so I was not able to test my experiment. Therefore this adventure ended a little earlier on around PST 01:41 PM. In the evening when electricity came back I tested newly installed switch and plug and they worked correctly. I let motor run until our overhead water tank becomes full.

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I used following chair during work for sitting. I did this mostly for avoiding sitting on floor of car poarch. Water motor and it's switchboard are in our car poarch.

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[Ad 2020 Feb 21 Fri] Because I forgot to take photos of switchboard and plug during their test on adventure day therefore I took photos of switchboard and plug today while motor was running.

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Note: Experience was again very enjoyable as ever before and it brought old memories back when I used to do these type of things often.

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