Hello hive friends! This is actually my first post to this community, and I'm excited to be a part of this wonderful DIY family. As a result, I will be presenting my DIY project today, which involves recycling an electrical extension box. I actually know a little bit about electrical gadgets, but not a lot, because I picked it up through hanging out with my uncle, an electrical engineer. I never realized he was training me the entire time, but I just put my attention into it to learn. He takes me along with him whenever he has work to do and makes me an assistant.
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I had previously used this extension box, but after lending it to a friend so they could use it too, it burned up from the high voltage appliance that was attached to it. Since then, I have decided to give it up because I don't have the luxury of time to sit down and repair whatever is wrong with it. I therefore made the decision to relax today and try to solve the problem. I have a screwdriver, a soldering iron, and some extra wires that I will use to link the extension box back up.
As I opened the extension box, I saw that the wires had burned all the way through, leaving only the initial space of the wire that supplies current to the extension box. To make sure I'm not attaching the spare wire I have in the incorrect location to prevent explosion, I started to construct some traces in that area. After identifying the areas that need changes, I pulled out the extra wires I had purchased and connected them to the existing one so that a complete current could be sent to the other portion of the extension.
Initially, the extension's wire was not strong enough to give a lot of electricity, but it could still power small gadgets like a TV set and phone chargers. I joined the wires and then used my soldering iron to solidify the connection between the wire and the extension's plate. The location where each device will be plugged in is the extension's plate.
After completing this procedure, I reconnected the extension box and tried to connect it to the power supply to check if it would still function or not. I had to unscrew it once more and then rewind the wires in a different method to get the results I wanted since when I connected it, it was not producing the current that I intended it to produce.
When doing this, I experimented with switching out the plug that will allow electrical currents to enter the extension for a different one and using the extension's cables to increase its strength from what it had previously...To help you all understand what I am saying in the beginning, I will be uploading a video of what I have done.
After making these changes, I tested it one last time, and it worked well to power the small appliances I needed it to without any issues. You can watch the end process in the video where it started to glow in the multi-socket that I connected to it. I hope I was able to fully describe what I did here. I appreciate you reading, and have a great remainder of your day.
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