<div dir="ltr">ok, that makes sense. It must be conducting. In fact i'll test it later.</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 27 July 2015 at 13:27, hank pronk via Personal_Submersibles <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:personal_submersibles@psubs.org" target="_blank">personal_submersibles@psubs.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><br>
James,<br>
I have had this problem with rubber washers. Some rubber contains carbon, I always put an ohm meter on material that needs to be an insulator. Your rubber is likely a conductor.<br>
Hank--------------------------------------------<br>
On Mon, 7/27/15, James Frankland via Personal_Submersibles <<a href="mailto:personal_submersibles@psubs.org">personal_submersibles@psubs.org</a>> wrote:<br>
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Subject: Re: [PSUBS-MAILIST] Earth Fault<br>
To: "Personal Submersibles General Discussion" <<a href="mailto:personal_submersibles@psubs.org">personal_submersibles@psubs.org</a>><br>
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<span><br>
No. Just<br>
sat on the trailer.<br>
On 27 July 2015 at 11:58,<br>
</span> Alan via Personal_Submersibles <<a href="mailto:personal_submersibles@psubs.org">personal_submersibles@psubs.org</a>><br>
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James<br>
were they in the water?<br>
<br>
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Sent from my iPad<br>
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> On 27/07/2015, at 10:33 pm, James Frankland via<br>
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> Hi All<br>
<br>
><br>
<br>
> I have a very peculiar issue. I have an earth fault<br>
on the boat.<br>
<br>
><br>
<br>
> My test consists of holding one probe of the meter on<br>
the positive battery terminal and the other to the hull<br>
somewhere. I was showing a reading of 24v. So obviously<br>
a negative connection somewhere to the hull.<br>
<br>
><br>
<br>
> I went around everything taking things off and have<br>
tracked the fault down to the lights.<br>
<br>
><br>
<br>
> The lights are the trustfire ones and the negative<br>
connection is grounded to the chassis of the light. <br>
However, when I fitted the lights, I was aware of this and<br>
so insulated the mounting bracket from the light casing<br>
itself with a piece of rubber. So theoretically, there is<br>
no physical connection from the case to the hull. Only the<br>
internal wire.<br>
<br>
><br>
<br>
> Anyway, if I disconnect the lights and leave them<br>
dangling on their wires, there is no earth fault. The<br>
lights all work, and the hull is clean of current.<br>
<br>
><br>
<br>
> So the lights must be leaking back through the<br>
connection somehow, but I cant see how. The case is<br>
insulated from the mounting bracket with rubber and the<br>
brackets are connected to the fibreglass faring, so it<br>
shouldn't leak back?<br>
<br>
><br>
<br>
> Anyway, ive fixed it by insulating the mounting bolts<br>
with delrin washers, but I cant see how the earth could<br>
return through a piece of rubber and then glass fibre. A<br>
mystery unless anyone can see something obvious?<br>
<br>
><br>
<br>
> Regards<br>
<br>
> James<br>
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><br>
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><br>
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