{"id":3348,"date":"2014-07-27T22:59:59","date_gmt":"2014-07-27T22:59:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/?p=3348"},"modified":"2017-07-05T20:06:58","modified_gmt":"2017-07-05T20:06:58","slug":"sunday-27th-july-2014-now-heres-a-thing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/?p=3348","title":{"rendered":"Sunday 27th July 2014 – NOW HERE’S A THING …"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"coffee<\/a>I actually had a coffee percolator running here – all 850 watts of it – and it’s the first percolated coffee that I’ve ever made here with my electrical system. We are definitely making progress here.<\/p>\n

WHen I turn the clock back to 2008 and the abuse and insults that were heaped upon me, all behind my back – in a public discussion forum by a so-called friend of mine when I talked about running a microwave oven here, well, the coffee machine draws the same current as a microwave and run for about the same length of time. I’m totally convinced that a microwave will run here and if I can find a cheap second-hand one as a test bed, I’ll be giving one a try.<\/p>\n

Mind you, I did have a problem with the main circuit breaker tripping out as it has done on a few other occasions too. But this time, I was there when it happened and I could see exactly what was happening and it’s left me with a bit of omelette sur le visage<\/em>. When I set up the system originally, I had a 600-watt inverter here. Consequently I wired a 75-amp circuit-breaker into the system, which was more-than-enough. Since then, I’ve installed a 1200-watt inverter and I seem to have … errr … forgotten to uprate the circuit-breaker. <\/p>\n

Of course, 75 amps is the equivalent of about 950 watts and when I have the fridge running and a few other things besides, then a 850-watt coffee percolator is expecting rather too much. <\/p>\n

Apart from that, I had a nice lie-in this morning, until 10:45 too and about time. And after breakfast I had a few things to do and then after lunch and the incident with the coffee machine, I did some shopping on the computer to buy the stuff for the Sankey Trailer and also some ink for the Hewlett Packard printer that I inherited. And that wasn’t as easy as it sounds either. I tried about 4 different cards before Paypal accepted one of them and to my surprise, it’s the one from the little rural bank here. None of the multinational cards word work.<\/p>\n

I should also have ordered a new circuit breaker or 6 while I was at it but I forgot.<\/p>\n

Anyway, that’s the end of the weekend and I’m back to work tomorrow. <\/p>\n

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I actually had a coffee percolator running here – all 850 watts of it – and it’s the first percolated coffee that I’ve ever made here with my electrical system. We are definitely making progress here. WHen I turn the clock back to 2008 and the abuse and insults that were heaped upon me, all […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4507,1616,258],"tags":[2657,2655,465,2560,5565,5366,2656,5355],"class_list":["post-3348","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-eric-hall-2","category-france","category-les-guis","tag-circuit-breaker","tag-coffee-percolator","tag-ebay","tag-eric-hall","tag-france","tag-les-guis","tag-paypal","tag-sankey-trailer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3348","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3348"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3348\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3349,"href":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3348\/revisions\/3349"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}