An announcement: There’s yet another strange technical mystery aboard the good ship TT. We first came across it while we were out on the canal watching the Queen’s flotilla on BBC. You know, the Big event filled with “B” list celebrities talking rubbish, whilst promoting their self inflated ego’s…
Anyway, what we observed was, whilst running a WATER tap (any tap will do), the WATER on the Thames stopped moving as did the boats. We put it down to bad TV reception, till we realised the screen stuttered along with the water pump, in perfect harmony. It was when we got back to the marina & I put the washer on this strange event was well & truly confirmed…
Said TV is in the saloon, it’s 240V & has a set top box that records & saves your fav programmes / series, & is, at the moment married to the water pump. At first, we thought it was the only TV infected affected…
Since then we’ve carried out some intensive eye WATERING tests:
- It only happens on BBC1 or BBC News24, all other channels are in good working order when running a tap.
- It also happens on the 12V TV in the bedroom, which works from a bog standard Freeview box.
- They’re both connected to a TV signal booster, which must be picking up interference, but the real humdinger is why only BBC1 & News24? I mean BBC2, 3, & 4, are ok, plus all the others.
- No other electrical appliances are
infectedaffected.
Logical conclusion: The water pump is about to pop it’s clogs, the dead give away is the farts it produces & how long they go on for. Well if that’s the case it’s a picky choosy thing when it comes to which TV channels to kybosh…
Hence the mystery, I mean if it’s going to bid for a takeover of BBC why not follow in Rupert Murdoch’s footsteps & go after every channel…? And yet the question remains, what do set top boxes, signal boosters, the BBC, & water pumps have in common…?
I kid ye not, all of the above is the truth, the whole truth, & nothing but the truth. I know our flowery, colourful stories are a theme on here. But there’s never any need to dress things up, TT (& our good selves) do it quite successfully without any help at all, I just relay the message…
Scenario: “So what do you want to watch on TV tonight dear?” Answer: “Ah yes, the water pump channel. You never know, we could be able to set it up as a series to record…”
I know it’s a bit different, but the lateral thinking technology wise reminds me of this Brilliant Blackberry deBarcle…
3 comments:
H, The symptoms that you describe are those of voltage problems on the 12v circuit. When a load is placed on the line such as running a pump that is struggling to manage. Drawing a lot more ampage than normal. The leisure battery voltage can fall to a level where the TV will play-up. After the pump stops running, everything should go back to normal. We get a similar problem when we flush the macerator toilet.
Mick
Hi Mike,
Thanks for sharing!
Helpful message from Dave:
Quote: "Tell Mike I'll buy him a "suppressor" for his macerator. If he can finish off setting up this SMART TV for me."
(The boat looks like a bomb's gone off inside). It follows the theory of "buy something hi spec? Don't forget extra bits & more bits & replacement bits & lots of research...
Anyway, back to the suppressor thing. Dave told me about how old cars used to have 12V dynamo's that were prone to upsetting 240V systems in houses as they drove past. So they put suppressors on them. Good eh? Learn something every day - before my time of course...
I'm going to do a blog post about this because weirdly enough I find it quite interesting.. (Sad I know)
H
Mike,
Dave's just told me that shouldn't happen when we're hooked up to the mains??? (As we are)
Blimey, well at least the new TV isn't infected, I mean affected. It's just "affected" in a variety of different ways. Darn thing..
H
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