- Location
- mid cornwall
Not sure if I'm missing something obvious or this is just the black magic that is electric having a laugh at me.
Spent yesterday afternoon trying to sort out the 3rd sevice on the old loader tractor, got as far as replacing most of the botched and corroded wiring as far as the 7 pin plug which happened to no longer have an earth from it so drilled a nice shiny hole in the mounting plate on the bracket, scraped the paint off and used a tex screw to attach the eye of the earth (nice and neat+barely noticeable I'm thinking.) Put my tester into the circuit and barely getting 5 volts, so out of curiosity I put my tester to the edge of the exact same plate which is 3 inches away from the hole and screw earth I made and instantly getting a good 12 volts? Move the tester back to the shiny hole and back to to 5 volts again? What on earth am I missing as it is the same flipping piece of metal? Of is this just the dark arts trying to p**s me off?
Apologies for the long post, but never been very good at explaining without doing it in a long-winded way
Spent yesterday afternoon trying to sort out the 3rd sevice on the old loader tractor, got as far as replacing most of the botched and corroded wiring as far as the 7 pin plug which happened to no longer have an earth from it so drilled a nice shiny hole in the mounting plate on the bracket, scraped the paint off and used a tex screw to attach the eye of the earth (nice and neat+barely noticeable I'm thinking.) Put my tester into the circuit and barely getting 5 volts, so out of curiosity I put my tester to the edge of the exact same plate which is 3 inches away from the hole and screw earth I made and instantly getting a good 12 volts? Move the tester back to the shiny hole and back to to 5 volts again? What on earth am I missing as it is the same flipping piece of metal? Of is this just the dark arts trying to p**s me off?
Apologies for the long post, but never been very good at explaining without doing it in a long-winded way