Wednesday, March 28, 2007
Gross. In a sticky messy wet state now, been doing manual labour for the last 4 hours or so. Got some nasty cuts from a screwdriver, and blisters on hand. Really not cut out for this huh.
Here's some updates!
The hood that fell apart - quite literally! The original work was done many, many months ago - almost a year, actually - using wood glue and uncannulated nails.
Wenky's Territory. I took up the entire living room's walking area. Surprisingly, Dad didn't chide me for leaving all those tools out last night.
Muahaha .. you won't get a chance to fall apart again, you monster!
Got the wiring done for the new lights, and fixed up new parabolic reflectors. The old one's on the right.
Testing the circuitry. I ain't no electrical engineer, so that green plastic box lid was placed over the lamp, *just in case* it explodes. Wiring up an electronic ballast is truly idiot-proof! No capacitors or ignitors to deal with, just one end to the plug and the other to the bulb. I'm feeling a little upset though, it's personal practice to earth every single metallic component. However, this particular electronic ballast has an earth for the ballast itself, but only live and neutral wires on the bulb, which means I couldn't earth that new parabolic reflector. Yx, can you help here? Do you think I can use a wire to connect the 2 relfectors in the hood, so that they share 1 earth?
Finally.
Wenky
3:00 PM
0 comments
Post a Comment
