Isolate your tippers

[roseyweb]

Got called out to the yard at 1.30am this morning with the van on fire. Its a 59 plate transit with one of those stupid tipper control boxes which asks you lots of questions before you're permitted to tip which sometimes can have a mind of its own when tipping.

It seems the unit has switched it self on and tipped and carried on tipping till the units electrics set on fire.

Due to a spate of recent break ins we have a night watchmen on who smelt the fire and quickly came with the extinguisher and called me out.

 

Lesson learned - isolate the tipper

 

of to go and try and lower the bed now and see if she will start, it would't last night

 

James

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[ArthurBottlesworth]

Bmw cars have similar problem

Apparently so many electrics battery will go flat if ignition eft on inabout 20 mins

Electrical fault turns ignition on in midle of night ----

[Craig Johnson]

sorry for the derail, BMW/ jags have a cpu on the gear box that take about 20mins to shut down, so if your in and out of the car, you can soon get a flat battery

[Stubby]

A lot of these modern tech gadgets are bloody irritating . Whats wrong with a switch . Up for up and down for down . Always used to work ! . Imagine having a pair of strides that asked if you really want to open your zipper when you ate bustin ' for a wazz ? Bonkers ...

[roseyweb]

 

Took the van down to local auto electrician today. Assuming motor etc is ok he's going to rip out that stupid quizzical box and install up down button, less to go wrong and I'll have a new cubby hole on the dash

[carpenter1]

So it started then

 

Not to much damage I hope

 

Luckily there was someone there to put it out.

Or what would have happened

[easy-lift guy]

That night watchman deserves a nice thank you and lunch or dinner out. I realize he was only doing his job and considering how much more damage could have been done you were very fortunate.

easy-lift guy

[Joel77]

Not just tippers that need isolating winch,s too