Wife and I moved into a new place up on the mountain a few months ago and I'm still learning the idiosyncrasies of the place.
I was out puttering in the barn the other day and I noticed that my battery tender in the bass boat was dead. No lights on at all.
Damn it.
I hadn't spent much time in the barn since Christmas since it's been dead ass winter and cold AF and I didn't have much to do outside. I figured it had probably been dead for at least a month, maybe two.
Damn it.
I figured that the breaker was probably tripped. Went to the box, nothing was tripped.
Damn it.
Unplugged the charger, grabbed an extension cord, ran it to another outlet. Still dead. A third outlet. Still dead.
*****
Time to buy a new battery tender. I'm irritated. This is a Cabelas Pro and was like $200 and less than 3 years old.
Damn it.
Got out the sidecuts and started cutting zip ties. After 20 minutes of work, I had extricated the battery tender from the boat. Of course I pulled both batteries, and had to move the fuel tank to get the thing out. I was already debating which new battery tender I was gonna buy.
As I'm walking across the barn to the trash, I figure what the hell, I should at least plug this thing in to one more outlet before I trash it. I plug it in and it lights up like a Christmas tree.
*****
Upon further examination. All four outlets on the far wall of the barn are on one circuit. The one nearest the breaker panel -- the one behind all my tree stands and **** piled up in the corner is GFCI, and has a tiny red light showing. All the downstream outlets are regular outlets. I don't know who the mental midget is who did the wiring in the barn, but one push of a button and four outlets roared back to life.
And now I have to spend a couple of hours rewiring and reinstalling a perfectly good battery tender.
I was out puttering in the barn the other day and I noticed that my battery tender in the bass boat was dead. No lights on at all.
Damn it.
I hadn't spent much time in the barn since Christmas since it's been dead ass winter and cold AF and I didn't have much to do outside. I figured it had probably been dead for at least a month, maybe two.
Damn it.
I figured that the breaker was probably tripped. Went to the box, nothing was tripped.
Damn it.
Unplugged the charger, grabbed an extension cord, ran it to another outlet. Still dead. A third outlet. Still dead.
*****
Time to buy a new battery tender. I'm irritated. This is a Cabelas Pro and was like $200 and less than 3 years old.
Damn it.
Got out the sidecuts and started cutting zip ties. After 20 minutes of work, I had extricated the battery tender from the boat. Of course I pulled both batteries, and had to move the fuel tank to get the thing out. I was already debating which new battery tender I was gonna buy.
As I'm walking across the barn to the trash, I figure what the hell, I should at least plug this thing in to one more outlet before I trash it. I plug it in and it lights up like a Christmas tree.
*****
Upon further examination. All four outlets on the far wall of the barn are on one circuit. The one nearest the breaker panel -- the one behind all my tree stands and **** piled up in the corner is GFCI, and has a tiny red light showing. All the downstream outlets are regular outlets. I don't know who the mental midget is who did the wiring in the barn, but one push of a button and four outlets roared back to life.
And now I have to spend a couple of hours rewiring and reinstalling a perfectly good battery tender.
