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Uncle Bulgaria · 2nd Aug 2019, 10:01 pm

I'm in Denmark and just plugged the Uher into the boat system via the 12-24V input and T10 caught fire. I thought by removing the lamps until I'm back in the country and can replace them that there'd be no load on T10 as the emitter would be detached from ground. Is that wrong, and by being unloaded and nominally 'on' is T10 drawing current that is overloading it? I'd better take it out of circuit...

2nd Aug 2019, 10:01 pm	#65
Uncle Bulgaria Nonode Join Date: May 2016 Location: Cornwall, UK. Posts: 2,335	Re: Uher CR240 Troubleshooting Best Practice I'm in Denmark and just plugged the Uher into the boat system via the 12-24V input and T10 caught fire. I thought by removing the lamps until I'm back in the country and can replace them that there'd be no load on T10 as the emitter would be detached from ground. Is that wrong, and by being unloaded and nominally 'on' is T10 drawing current that is overloading it? I'd better take it out of circuit...