SRowells Diablo 1.8 - Jenvey 45s & OMEX600

[Eeyore]

This weekend I will be going away training with the boat. Dark nights are drawing in and I know at some point ill be towing in the dark so thought it would be a great idea to have working trailer lights. Because the nights are dark from 6 onwards and I only finish work at 5 then I needed a way of working in the dark.

One trip to B&Q and £28 later I have an awesome 400W tripod lamp which I am really pleased with!



There was no where to buy a socket and cable from at short notice so I went to halfords and bought a 6m tow cable extension and cut it in half to get the socket end. The way I envisage the new tow electrics is that the socket will sit in the boot and can be fed down to the tow bar when needed. This saves it getting filled with salt water when launching boats etc. Bracket will be angle ground off at a later date!

Previously only the left indicator and left brake light was working. Nothing else D: . The soldering iron gave up yet again. No idea whats wrong with it but its pathetic. What I decided to do was to use lots of bullet connectors so that the electrics would be removable for super light weight track time... and also if the socket ever got broken. The previous one was always submerged when launching the speedboat so no wonder it didnt work when it looked like this...



some rewiring later...



and some tape later!



sorted and all working! Spent half an hour to work out why everything wasnt working. Turned out the lightboard I was testing on was broken. Tried another and everything worked fine! Yay! Roll on the weekend!