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My first proper Earthquake!

 Last night at 3.07am was woken to everything moving, bedroom cupboard door rattling and general WTF moment! This is my first really quake, the previous one I had felt while I was offshore in Qatar, but thought that was just the crane driver being a bit rough with a load landing. Last nights was different, the whole place was shaking and lying it bed it felt really weird last a good 20+ seconds I would have guessed. Turns out it was a Magnitude 6.6, located around 48Km WNW of Polis, off the west coast of Cyprus. At least no damage here and everyone fine. Eldest daughter thought it was 'so cool', think that was her first experience of one as well. Full details can be found at: https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/us7000gaqu/executive
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Timer meltdown!

After being out at the dog shelter today, we all came home and had showers.

I went to put on the electric immersion heater and noticed it was already on, but no light on, so thought the timer circuit was 'off' so opened up the distribution board door to bypass the timer and flick it to 'on'.

When I did this, the light still didn't come on. To begin with, I couldn't work out why, and it wasn't until I looked at the side of the timer through the slot in the DB cover that I noticed the melting on the side of the timer relay.

It was time to dig out the screwdrivers and multi-meter!

Removing the cover off the front of the distribution board, I immediately noticed the wire link across terminals 2+4 had completely melted away and this in turn had melted both sides of the timer.

Hunting around in toolbox I found some 10Amp chocolate block and used this to bypass the timer relay contact. Guess I'll go shopping for a new timer tomorrow.

I think when I get the replacement, I will be wiring it up with segregated circuits for the timer motor and the heater element circuit.



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Location: Paphos, Cyprus

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