Electrical fire - Jinma 204

[JohnS]

TruChaos,

Nice, clean, installation and layout. Very professionally done. Great work.

 

[CurlyDave]

The wires in that loom seem totalled with many of the wires burnt through and beyond my ability to remedy, so I've arranged to have it taken to a shop for repair. I don't know what other electrical components have been damaged.

It has 500+ hours on the clock and hasn't missed a beat up until now. The only hint of anything wrong was an unexplained flat battery about 6 weeks ago but it has been fine since.

Mark

I would have tried hard to embarrass the dealer into fixing it free.

Show him the TBN thread.

 

[Soundguy]

The battery switch is a good idea. Most of our heavy equipment and large trucks have them.. either oem, or installed by our mechanic.. etc.

Soundguy

I manage a series of electrical engineering laboratories and I've seen a lot of electrical failures. Some are simple failures, others are catastrophic failures resulting in fires, etc.

Owning a Jinma tractor and seeing the low quality of the wiring harness and connectors, I immediately saw the potential for an electrical fire. I've mentioned this problem in threads on this web site and others. I'm not bashing these tractors as I really enjoy mine but, it surprises me that we don't hear of more serious electrical failures like the fire mentioned. You don't need me to tell you there is a tremendous amount of energy stored in a battery and a short circuit can start a fire in a second or less.

What I did to prevent the potential damage of an electrical fire was to install a master battery cut off switch.

One of my fears would be for a short circuit to occur in the middle of the night and the tractor to go up in flames and take my garage with it. Now, I can simply flip a switch and the tractor harness is completely de-energized.

Or if I'm working with the tractor and a short circuit should occur, I can simply open the hood and flip the switch to stop it.

While I was at it, I installed a power tap so I can charge the battery and plug in high current attachments like power inverters, etc.


Here is a picture of my switch mod.

 

[Catch95]

Thanks for all the messages and I will put in the switch. I have one on an old Landrover 4WD, and routinely disconnect it when its not going to be used for a while.

I won't be able to do the repair myself as I'm off to Qatar for a month working on the Asian Games, so I'm at the mercy of the repairer. But I'd rather get it done so I have it when I get back.

What I would say though, is there was no warning at all - it had run perfectly the day before and started first go that morning. And the fire spread very quickly, so I was very pleased I had a newish fire extinguisher in the shed

Will post a report when the shop has discovered the cause of the fault.

Thanks

Mark

 

[ToolManRick]

I think it would be a good idea to start another thread for your personal problems. I'm waiting to find out what caused the electrical fire, not why you can't seem to get along with each other. Nothing personal, just not the topic here.

Thanks guys, I love this forum.

 

[MossRoad]

And now back to our previously scheduled program>>>

 

[thingy]

You are right mr rick,,I totally agree,,,agree with the banished material too,,thingy

 

[BTDT]

I think it would be a good idea to start another thread for your personal problems. I'm waiting to find out what caused the electrical fire, not why you can't seem to get along with each other. Nothing personal, just not the topic here.

Thanks guys, I love this forum.

I don't get it. I didn't notice any out of line comments. Maybe it's an inside joke. I thought the fire was the problem.

 

[tallyho8]

Usually, when a comment like this doesn't make sense to you, it is because the offending thread was removed before you saw it.

 

[TruChaos]

Usually, when a comment like this doesn't make sense to you, it is because the offending thread was removed before you saw it.

Dang! It sucks when my hate mail gets deleted before I get a chance to read it.

: )