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[andy63]

Well I know lots of you will know Sandra and I are constantly squabbling and having a go at each other...
But have to take my hat off here..
She has had Alan teaching her a little about electrics... and is getting more involved ... well done that girl @irnbru ... it's good to see..

She could look a bit happier mind..

 

[irnbru]

If I could get my head round it i might. Alan has gone, he's probably fed up , hence how your phone messages are now going ping, ping.

Ive progressed a little,Ive got a few car bulbs and some led strip lighting. I want to join to make..I think 15 amps or so, and replaced the drill battery with a leisure battery and got some nice spade rip off priced connectors from Maplins. I know a little knowledge is dangerous but didn't everyone start somewhere. Anyway stop bloody showing me up and reply to pms instead.

 

[andy63]

First things first...
If you want a 15A load don't bother with LED strip lights
Secondly ...I didn't know you were into weight lifting...
Leave that leisure battery on the floor and get some longer wires..

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[irnbru]

Cmon women back me up here. Who else is a gutsy woman to try things... erm @movan I can never reach your guts and wild camp alone..even with a half deaf dog

 

[movan]

I AM trying Sandra. Trying to fix my 12v and 3 prong sockets at the moment ...

I might wild camp but you jumped into a relationship and it worked .. I've been put off for life. . You is strong woman.

When you have finished learning about electrics .. I suspect @andy63 might be wired up like Frankenstein on your dining table. Xx

 

[Cliffdale]

I think you should explain to her how to plug in the soldering iron and perhaps put the battery back on the drill?

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[irnbru]

I AM trying Sandra. Trying to fix my 12v and 3 prong sockets at the moment ...

I might wild camp but you into a relationship and it worked .. I've been put off for life. . You is strong woman.

When you have finished learning about electrics .. I suspect @andy63 might be wired up like Frankenstein on your dining table. Xx

Nah Alan will tell you I far from Jumped but yes its a good relationship ( can I ignore @Jim in this reply..dont want dating fees ) You are gutsy no1

 

[Diabalo]

There's a very good reason why 90% of electricians are male

 

[big map]

@irnbru good on you for trying to do whatever it is you are trying to do. Can I just check is it something to do with the Christmas tree behind you in the first photo?

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[jnn]

Have to ask what WERE you trying to do?

having electrics that can be tinkered with is one of the best bits about my camper conversion.

welcome to geekdom Irnbru, tis a badge to wear with honour

 

[ABZSteve]

Well I know lots of you will know Sandra and I are constantly squabbling and having a go at each other...
But have to take my hat off here..
She has had Alan teaching her a little about electrics... and is getting more involved ... well done that girl @irnbru ... it's good to see..
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She could look a bit happier mind..

Nothing like a tidy work place

 

[The Dudess]

RESPECT Sandra.

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[The Wino]

Strikes me its a bit old fashioned to have a thread where its seen as strange for a woman to be doing the electrics we are in 2016 not the 1960's. Now don't think I'm totally PC on this I think there's nothing worse than quotas on gender splits in industry where there is a bias in favour of women (or men) despite their aptitude or lack of it for a particular job but it seems a bit odd to think nowadays that its something unusual to have a woman doing the electrics especially as its a job where there is not a lot of physical strength involved. By the way my daughter is doing nuclear science and engineering at uni and is a keen rugby player!!!

 

[irnbru]

@irnbru good on you for trying to do whatever it is you are trying to do. Can I just check is it something to do with the Christmas tree behind you in the first photo?

No, I just brought the wee tree down from loft.

I was watching Alan soldering a wire and wiring a monitor in MH and would love to be able to do these things for myself.

No matter how much I get explained to me I just havent grasped electrics so I'm trying to learn by playing around with stuff. Alan has also left me a chinese battery monitor to play with so I want to calibrate it using 12v bulbs etc.

@The Wino its strange for ME to be playing with electrics as @andy63 knows I usually get him or Alan to do my electrics I need doing.
Would risk playing around with them in MH though til I get a better understanding of them.

 

[Cal54]

Good on you Sandra - once you've mastered what ever it is you are up to perhaps you could teach us other females. Mind you, you will have to write everything down or use hand signals as you know that Joy @movan can't understand a word you say!!! Lol

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[The Wino]

No, I just brought the wee tree down from loft.

I was watching Alan soldering a wire and wiring a monitor in MH and would love to be able to do these things for myself.

No matter how much I get explained to me I just havent grasped electrics so I'm trying to learn by playing around with stuff. Alan has also left me a chinese battery monitor to play with so I want to calibrate it using 12v bulbs etc.

@The Wino its strange for ME to be playing with electrics as @andy63 knows I usually get him or Alan to do my electrics I need doing.
Would risk playing around with them in MH though til I get a better understanding of them.

Go for it .

 

[jnn]

Didn't think it was about a woman doing electrics, more about somebody who doesn't 'do' electrics learning to do them. Don't think elecronics and the tinkering with thereof is a male or female preserve

irnbru when you're a bit more comfortable you could get a raspberry pi and or arduino, great fun for building little circuits and making them do stuff with a computer interface

 

[irnbru]

irnbru when you're a bit more comfortable you could get a raspberry pi and or arduino, great fun for building little circuits and making them do stuff with a computer interface

No idea what these are. Only know a pie you eat

Maybe if you explain I can refer to it next year when im a bit further on. I do happen to have a lot of old circuit boards.

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[jnn]

Raspberry pi is a tiny computer that lends itself well to managing interfaces without risking your decent computer. I have one running all manner of monitoring and response systems - mostly for fun, has been genuinely useful for eg watching how the fridge temperature changes when power is cut so can figure how long it'll stay cool for without power. Amazon product ASIN B00HU0G9TO
Arduino is an open source electronics prototyping system. Great fun to tinker with.

A piece of wood and pile of components and wires probably the best place to start, the raspberry pi and arduino are just the modern way to do that.

 

[Cal54]

@jnn - didn't mean to imply that electronics is gender specific, it's just the way things are explained - what makes sense to blokes doesn't always translate into female logic!!!! Lol

 

[andy63]

what makes sense to blokes doesn't always translate into female logic!!!! Lol

LOL.. I'm pleased you said that and not me carol. .

And now back to the bru. . Who has turned her hand to a bit of soldering... which can be easy enough if you've practiced but not the easiest skill to develop by messaging
After 1 hr 10 min here's the first attempt... nice one..

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[The Wino]

I would suggest the wires and wood/meter /battery etc the Pi is more a computing thing I think you were more interested it the fixing things bit!!

 

[ABZSteve]

Strikes me its a bit old fashioned to have a thread where its seen as strange for a woman to be doing the electrics we are in 2016 not the 1960's. Now don't think I'm totally PC on this I think there's nothing worse than quotas on gender splits in industry where there is a bias in favour of women (or men) despite their aptitude or lack of it for a particular job but it seems a bit odd to think nowadays that its something unusual to have a woman doing the electrics especially as its a job where there is not a lot of physical strength involved. By the way my daughter is doing nuclear science and engineering at uni and is a keen rugby player!!!

Have to ask, was she interested in rugby before she started messing around with nuclear stuff; look what happened to David Banner

 

[The Wino]

Yep she was lucky a teacher at school introduced the girls to rugby thinking they might like a go and quite a few were dead keen turned from lets just try touch to full contact and I don't think she's been irradiated yet!

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[The Wino]

LOL.. I'm pleased you said that and not me carol. .

And now back to the bru. . Who has turned her hand to a bit of soldering... which can be easy enough if you've practiced but not the easiest skill to develop by messaging
After 1 hr 10 min here's the first attempt... nice one..

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just remember the first thing is to get it really clean before soldering took me a while to realise no-one ever showed me how.

 

[jnn]

second that, I'm appaling at soldering, far too cack handed, it ends up functional but not pretty.

Agree with wino about wires n stuff first but the pi/arduino one to bear in mind once you're comfortable tinkering - my van has its own raspberry pi, just because it can really. hoping the hounds will do some of my to do list whislt i drive!

 

[DBK]

Raspberry pi is a tiny computer that lends itself well to managing interfaces without risking your decent computer. I have one running all manner of monitoring and response systems - mostly for fun, has been genuinely useful for eg watching how the fridge temperature changes when power is cut so can figure how long it'll stay cool for without power. Amazon product ASIN B00HU0G9TO
Arduino is an open source electronics prototyping system. Great fun to tinker with.

A piece of wood and pile of components and wires probably the best place to start, the raspberry pi and arduino are just the modern way to do that.

I like that kit of bits for the Pi, a regular Meccano set #10.

And for the youngsters who don't get the reference: http://www.ebay.co.uk/bhp/meccano-set-10

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[movan]

Sandra, I have put the flyers through the doors here .... 10% commission required on all the rewiring orders I get for you ... Can't wait.

 

[Puddleduck]

Yep she was lucky a teacher at school introduced the girls to rugby thinking they might like a go and quite a few were dead keen turned from lets just try touch to full contact and I don't think she's been irradiated yet!

I played rugby at school as well - that was in the 1970s. For some reason the male teams refused to play the "ladies" teams.

Electrics...... my Grandmother wired her own house when mains electric was installed. She never did learn how to cook properly though.

 

[andy63]

Sandra, I have put the flyers through the doors here .... 10% commission required on all the rewiring orders I get for you ... Can't wait.

And the lights go out all over Britain

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