Sunday, 8 September 2024

It's Insanity

"Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results". See below:

We'll come back to that though.

We started the day visiting the boat in the MK7 with the GTs - we were looking after then as Oli had to get his eye looked at - at the Heath. I spotted that yellow MG again when we arrived and showed it to Monty while Jana took EB down to the boat.

They both enjoyed the boat, although they were a bit wary of it - probably without Mummy and Daddy there to support them.


While we were messing about Oli rang and told us he was not supposed to drive for 4 hours - we decided to collect him and his car a bit later. So after dropping the GTs off we headed to pick him up and I drove the Passat back. 

After lunch I decided to look at the Alpine flashers again. That's where the madness started. Each unit worked for a while and then I managed to blow two fiddling.

I worked out what I was doing wrong though so after careful rewriting with #3 I got the result I wanted - we had flashing indicators. Well one mind you, as three out of four bulbs don't actually flash - but it is progress. It also appeared to have no power to the flasher terminal itself but as I had to retire everything anyway I did not think there was a problem just running a new live in.

So after everything replicated as before I managed to blow the final unit. It flashed about 10 times and then gave up.

So did I.

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