Welcome to this week’s casual kōrero thread!
This post will be pinned in this community so you can always find it, and will stay for about a week until replaced by the next one.
It’s for talking about anything that might not justify a full post. For example:
- Something interesting that happened to you
- Something humourous that happened to you
- Something frustrating that happened to you
- A quick question
- A request for recommendations
- Pictures of your pet
- A picture of a cloud that kind of looks like an elephant
- Anything else, there are no rules (except the rule)
So how’s it going?
Nothing special, any copper wire should work.
It uses induction - the base station sends a signal around the loop and the mower picks it up with a coil. The signal is inverted when the coil is on the outside of the loop.
Ah, that is the kind of special I meant. So it’s plugged in to a base station sending signals.
You mentioned it’s corroded, so it’s just a bare wire? Or it’s insulated but over time I guess the sun would damage the plastic and air/water would start to get into the wire and corrode it?
Bingo! Ripped out a bunch of it yesterday and found a section of it where insulation has failed for whatever reason and the wire was crumbling to dust.