WHEN CURRENT MISSES

NZ Truth, Issue 1263, 13 February 1930, Page 18

WHEN CURRENT MISSES

MAY BL MERELY BY SLIGHT DEFECT

Inattention to simple details connected with the electrical equipment of the car will often cause considerable inconvenience to the owner-driver, to say nothing of the cost occasioned by. such negligence. TT is quite easy to blame the dynamo ■*■ for the lack of output, when the instrument itself is m perfect order. Sometimeß one will continue to exhaust the -batteries, which are not receiving any charge from the dynamo, simply owing to the failure of a lead carrying the current to the switchboard.

When a defect of this kind arises, the most natural tendency is to rush the car off to the garage or to a service station, where electrical repairs are carried out. >

As a matter of fact, it is quite a simple matter to trace out the various wires to ascertain whether they are m good condition and thus perhaps discover the cause of the trouble before putting the car m dock for so simple a reason. Sometimes a small length of insulation tape wound round <a cable that has become chafed through, will save putting the car temporarily out of service, and therefore it is desirable to make sure that a simple repair cannot be carried out m the home garage, before having to interview the technical staff of the service -, depot about details that could be put right m a few minutes by one's own efforts.