Saturday, September 15, 2007

Attacked by flying monsters.

These days are with extraordinary weather.
There is a high pressure above this area of over 1010 millibar.
This means blue skies, hardly any wind and a temperature of about 31 degrees Centigrade (87 F.)
While people in the town of La Paz, on the east coast of the peninsula, are suffering of weather too hot and humid, at El Triple it is paradise.
Nice, warm weather while nature is green and full of flowers, tan is getting deeper and deeper with an occasional dive into the warm ocean.



Of course the daily semi-marathon changed due to the meteorological circumstances.
With no wind to cool and temperatures at that time of day of over 30 degrees Centigrade (86 F) the body refuses to do what it can when it is cooler and windier.
But that is OK.
It is understandable and peacefully accepted.
Same distance is made but partly running and partly fast walking.

After the hurricane and the beautiful weather now one consequence is that there are many more insects.
The combination of the rainfall and the plants and flowers flourishing.
During the day it is not so noticeable but in the evening, when in the Fuso Szulc cooking the daily meal and the light is turned on, millions and millions of insects come to visit.
The screens in front of the many windows and of the door are full of all kinds of mini monsters with wings.
Many manage somehow to get inside and at the end of the evening the Fuso Szulc interior looks like a sanctuary for insects.
Hundreds and hundreds of them are crawling on the ceiling, circling the lamp, walking the walls and dancing on the table.
There are small black ones who like to creep between the body and the chair and bite.
That is pretty irritating.
However, in the morning those small black ones and many others are all dead: they all seem to have a short life span.
And this is the great thing of the nightly visits of the colonies of insects.
In the morning the interior of the Fuso Szulc is full with dead corpses and before anything it needs cleaning before breakfast, writing in the journal and starting to work on the MacBook Pro computer can begin.
This means that these days the Fuso Szulc is spic and span every day and this is very much enjoyed.

Meanwhile the problem with the water pump and the overheating of the Seelevel monitor has still not been solved.
It has been reported to Santek Trailers and to the Canadian manufacturer of the Seelevel monitor Garnet Instruments Ltd. requesting advice what to do.
From Santek Trailers no response but a most friendly person with Garnet Instruments Ltd., Mr. Don Shapansky, has become very involved.
This is a great thing that there are people who are concerned and helpful.

According to Mr. Don Shapansky of Garnet Instruments Ltd., the problem is caused by inadequate grounding of the water pump.
A research has been made to find out how the water pump is actually grounded.
And this was found:


The ground cable goes to a wall covered with a wooden panel.
A self-tapping screw goes through the wall and into the steel frame of the Fuso Szulc.
It means that the end of the ground cable of the water pump gets ground through the screw.
The eye of the ground cable itself is not touching the steel frame.
It touches the wooden panel.
Mr. Don Shapansky of Garnet Instruments Ltd advised to focus on this method of grounding.
With a volt meter the ground cable has been measured and result is zero volts.
This means that the grounding should be adequate.
But meanwhile the water pump continues to work in an erratic way.
Frequently, when switched on, no water comes from the faucet.
And if the water flows in high volume it overheats the on/off switch on the Seelevel monitor.

This morning an experiment will take place.
The ground cable of the water pump will be disconnected.
Next, the wooden panel at that particular location will be cut away.
To re-install the ground connection of the water pump but now touching 100 % the steel frame.

This idea from Mr. Don Shapansky of Garnet Instruments Ltd concerning the ground cable seems to make sense because before the Fuso Szulc was first equipped with another water pump.
That water pump worked erratically as well and it was believed it had to do with the pump and the tubing.
But now that the new water pump demonstrates the same trouble, and as it is wired in the same way, Mr. Don Shapansky of Garnet Instruments Ltd suggestion might have suggested the key to an adequate and effective solution.

This is highly anticipated because now, each time when the water pump is being used, there is this slight feeling of fear and panic that fire might break out as it did before.






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1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Just a suggestion:

If you have any spare electrical cable on-board, run the ground directly to the battery, this will take the issue of "how good is the ground" right out of the equation. Even temporarily using an unused extension cord would suffice. If the pump then runs properly, then attack the ground connection itself.

Al.