Don't make me pop a cap in you...
Much to my dismay, the wonder wagon's expensive front right tire got jiggy with a construction nail a few weeks back. Because we were road-tripping at the time, we didn't notice the slow leak until the tire was "et up purty good".
Since I'll have to replace the set soon, I haven't bothered to get the hole plugged (with anything but the nail, which is doing a halfway decent job at the moment). Instead, I just pump it up regularly.
Today, I pulled out my air pump and plugged it into the cheap gooseneck adapter we keep in the car's power socket (guess where this is going). The pump was a little weak, so I asked maisimai to actually crank up the car so the generator would give a little extra juice.
Moments later, the pump suddenly quit. As I stood up and looked in the window, maisimai remarked "Uhh, it's doing something".
"Something" turned out be what every electrical engineer knows as "the smoke test".
I yanked the pump cord out and chucked hot, smoking gooseneck into the yard while shouting expletives that my 16-month old daughter had best not repeat.
Apparently the gooseneck, which came with an electronic air cleaner (ha, ha, the irony), is not rated for *that* much current...
For the record, I do not love the smell of burnt capacitor in the morning.
Since I'll have to replace the set soon, I haven't bothered to get the hole plugged (with anything but the nail, which is doing a halfway decent job at the moment). Instead, I just pump it up regularly.
Today, I pulled out my air pump and plugged it into the cheap gooseneck adapter we keep in the car's power socket (guess where this is going). The pump was a little weak, so I asked maisimai to actually crank up the car so the generator would give a little extra juice.
Moments later, the pump suddenly quit. As I stood up and looked in the window, maisimai remarked "Uhh, it's doing something".
"Something" turned out be what every electrical engineer knows as "the smoke test".
I yanked the pump cord out and chucked hot, smoking gooseneck into the yard while shouting expletives that my 16-month old daughter had best not repeat.
Apparently the gooseneck, which came with an electronic air cleaner (ha, ha, the irony), is not rated for *that* much current...
For the record, I do not love the smell of burnt capacitor in the morning.