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Drover

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Set up at my mates place, a lovely bush setting, ran the power cables, needed 2, plugged in......while touching the draw bar felt a tingle, did it again, yep we have a short.....shut down power, got out the multi meter and thankfully I found one of my leads had an earth fault, far easier to fix than something in the van, but not a nice feeling.
 

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Set up at my mates place, a lovely bush setting, ran the power cables, needed 2, plugged in......while touching the draw bar felt a tingle, did it again, yep we have a short.....shut down power, got out the multi meter and thankfully I found one of my leads had an earth fault, far easier to fix than something in the van, but not a nice feeling.
Ooops.
 
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Drover

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Was only a little back feed leak, just a tiny tingle which some may not even notice not enough to trip, but I went over all power points with everything shut down then turned each unit on and checked for any leakage just to make sure the lead was the culprit, I was so glad it was as otherwise it was pointing to the setec. Then when I put the juice back on got the big O on the meter when I went from van to dirt so chopped the lead up and had a beer.

Put a photo up last night but it's gone, stupid WiFi. So here it is again, Happy new Year fellas have a great one.
The white ice cream carton is my waterproof power lead junction box.

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