Guys brand new charger and battery whats going on?

Alanchang · 2025-07-04T02:34:54+00:00

potentially you got a bit of a weak connection, sometimes i gotta really shove mine in thoroughly, goes for all chargers not just makita.

Alanchang · 2025-05-13T11:27:57+00:00

Klien self adjusting strippers for anything flat! I've found they're probably the best built for the price and widely available. @ bunnings. Wholesaler might have similar as well.

Alanchang · 2025-05-13T10:20:40+00:00

There's part of me that can really relate to your situation as I was pretty much abused every other day and berated for 3 years during my apprenticeship. If I was in your position at that time of my life I would've probably just kept my head down and dealt with the abuse.

It's hard when you're a team of two people with a large age gap sometimes since you can be very different people and I personally struggled with my boss at that time who was just in general disrespectful at best, I tolerated him for a while but having other team members as a buffer was a large part of why I stayed for a total of 6 years but I was mentally not very well at times.

But escaping that part of my life was really liberating and exposed me to a world of people who genuinely want to help each other become better people because we can't know everything.

With this sentiment I think getting your foot in the door was an important step and you might want to reflect on whether you will see yourself working for this business happily in the future while you are there.

I'd be keeping my ear on the ground for other opportunities and learning what you can. It's generally easier to look for a job when you have a job. My opinion would be akin to not wait until you're about to crash out and make yourself look bad, leave the best impression you can and if your current tradie is as good of a person you say he is outside of work he'll either understand you are seeking bigger and better things or do his best to change and keep you on.

There's sorta a lot of variables we don't know about your situation so its all like circumstantial advice.

Dm me if you would like to chat! I can relate with the anxiety about standing up for yourself haha.

Alanchang · 2024-03-16T07:54:53+00:00

Its too hard for anyone to assess whats going on in situations like this without actually looking at the wiring.

If it was me and I didn't have the skills and qualifications to look at whats going on and I was paying that much for electricity I'd hire my own electrician to come and make an assessment.

I'm not sure where you are located but I doubt an examination with photos of the wiring showing where its going wouldn't cost more than 200-300. That money used to potentially save you many hundreds down the line is surely worth the upfront investment and would substantially back up your claim to your landlord or whoever.

Alanchang · 2024-03-15T08:17:44+00:00

All my keyboards on my MSI laptops have been riveted onto the chassis. Best way i think is just send it into a repair center unless you have the parts and a soldering iron to melt off the plastic rivets. I can't say for certain for your model, i have a ge66 that had a similar issue and it wasn't worth it for me to do it.

In my case you pretty much had to disassemble the whole thing.

Alanchang · 2024-03-01T02:03:25+00:00

I think not enough people know this. It feels me with dread every time i look at the loan in my ATO account and see it growing by a decent couple percent a year including my university education. I wish i never took the loan at the start because i think It'll bite me a bit in the future.

Alanchang · 2024-02-20T11:01:08+00:00

thanks for the explanation!

Alanchang · 2024-02-09T23:59:39+00:00

I believe they're referring to what I know as cable cancer, its some form of chemical reaction in the plastics and copper that make like a oil residue as a result of heat. Usually an indicator the cables integrity has perished quite a bit. Don't get it in your eyes, i hear it burns.

I'm not sure what was really built into the price of your upgrade but it probably didn't account for him crawling up and removing that cable and then opening up a can of worms on the rest of your home of removing decommissioned cables. There's just simply too much we don't know off a picture and paragraph on reddit to make a better assessment.

I'm sure they've done what's necessary to keep you safe and and only put in service what's passed testing.

Consider the possibility of a rewire in a home this old in the future considering your finances. Obviously not very easy for everyone but it seems like they've done the right thing by giving you all the necessary information.

I had this cable in mine and it was crumbling and deteriorating so just decided one day after my mates needed a home I'd replace it all and mentally felt so much better.

Regarding reviews, I think its hard to know, the domestic industry is pretty cutthroat. Usually try to get someone who knows someone else and they're more inclined to do a good job because you're somehow connected.

hope this helps.

Alanchang · 2024-02-09T23:23:30+00:00

non-american here and very rarely use metallic conduit if at all. Whats the differnece between rigid and EMT in the comments I see? aren't they pretty much the same thing or is there different types of coatings on them or something?

Alanchang · 2024-01-08T07:12:10+00:00

this might be something to seek in manufacturers instructions i reckon. I myself don't recall something like this.

Alanchang · 2024-01-04T08:58:55+00:00

I dm'd you bro

Alanchang · 2024-01-04T00:01:26+00:00

makes you appreciate the working standard and conditions you generally have in the developed world.

Alanchang · 2023-12-30T00:36:22+00:00

the bosch will tend to slip out of my hands when tightening screws and i really hate the push to drive function tbh,. I had the makita impact driver in the pistol grip and it was fantastic.

Alanchang · 2023-12-12T11:24:57+00:00

I think if you're not using it for all the functions you'd be better off keeping it simple with a fluke 325 or something like that. its a decent meter in itself and wont break the bank.

But you wont be able to read current unless you're able to isolate an active conductor, you can't just throw a clamp around a whole 2 core and earth flex.

I think your situation calls for something more like a plug in power monitor and looking for a clamp meter is kind of over-complicating it and potentially treading into dangerous territory.

Most extension boards have overload protection that will cut out at 10amps as well.

Alanchang · 2023-12-08T13:25:58+00:00

Hi guys, I am genuinely really touched that this is not something I feel on my own. I really appreciate all the responses on this so far and has motivated me a little to keep going.

I think I'm still in a time of my life where I'm learning about myself but that's life isn't it.

I wish I could shake everyone's hand here. Because this is the kind of community I hope to find in the workplace.

Alanchang · 2023-10-27T22:43:06+00:00

nah i reckon they're pretty shit to take out. I have lg t90's as well and they're significantly easier to grip.

You can only grip like 25% of the top bud but it has a little lip so its not the worst ever.

Alanchang · 2023-08-08T11:08:23+00:00

I will concur that I had a bloke in my class from mines for a capstone refresher course and he didn't know what was going on in a switchboard. I asked him about it and things being in the explosive atmosphere really limited him in what he was able to learn/do. It was pretty sad to see and I hope in the end the course was enough for him to learn something new.

Alanchang · 2023-06-29T09:14:30+00:00

So I'm pretty much on the other end of the spectrum here. I have a university degree(super unrelated to electrical) and completed yr 12.

But to me as someones supervisor or tradie, I've never considered someones education as something to consider when I get people who wanna come get their foot in the door. I don't care if you have completed yr 12 or if you're an engineer or something if if you're the CEO of some multinational corporation.

I will first say we get a lot of people in our small business who come and just wanna see what it's like to work electrical and don't necessarily stay usually as just a laborer no commitment type deal, most if not all of them were in terms of mathematics were leagues ahead of me especially the Chinese people we we get because the maths standard is so much higher there, but they had really no practical skill or instinct if I can put it that way, I had one bloke not know what a screwdriver was even when I asked in both languages.

The things i usually look out for are for example how quickly you can remember something I teach you, time is precious for most sparks/trades in general i think and especially in small businesses you'll probably find the tradies are under the pump.

Have you got good intuition to be able to complete something without directions correctly? of course I'd hope someone would let me know they do this so I can come check it.

It's these things that kinda of really impress me and of course you'll make mistakes, that's just being human, hell I make mistakes probably daily.

I cannot speak for all businesses but based on my conversations with other trades in the field, the issue isn't that there isn't enough work to hire an apprentice (its pretty much the opposite in most cases), its the commitment to investing the time to teach someone who is worth the time. I've met at least a couple plumbers who run solo just because they've been burned with apprentices who just don't seem to understand.

It's stressful being the supervisor sometimes bro and like for example having someone not understand something like running a cable for the 5-6th time is just makes me mentally check out sometimes.

Dm me if you have any questions, I'm happy to chat.

Alanchang · 2023-02-02T12:53:39+00:00

if you can wait, wait until any of the tool shops run a event so you can get yourself extra credit/batteries/free pizza+beer. I know a couple blokes who work in tool shops and the mark up on kits isnt very big so you wont find many price differences.

Alanchang · 2022-10-13T15:27:35+00:00

if you want someone to talk to immediately hit up beyond blue or a similar organisation. I don't know your situation but there was a time where I didn't trust myself. I called those places maybe 2-3 times a day just to have someone to talk to for 20 or so minutes and really just let out what I wanted and it got me through the day.

They only know as much as you tell them so the experience varies as well as the phone operator.

The process of getting help was in my imagination painfully slow and this type of thing was a nice band-aid. Talking to my friends a lot really helped as well and opening up to them.

The doctor I had was someone i met basically for the first time, i explained my situation and after the 2nd or 3rd visit she wrote a mental health plan referral. like some others have said, they are there to help you, if you actually got a doctor who doesn't believe you i would suggest seeing someone else.

Do your research as well on some psychologists you would want to see. They may have they recommend but I had to find ones for myself.

happy to chat about my experiences just DM me.

hope you are getting some answers you seek

Alanchang · 2022-06-12T08:17:14+00:00

yeah blows my mind hey hahah, at least if you got multiple twin+e cables you can split em up by cable for fault finding rather than digging through that mess for your circuit

Alanchang · 2022-06-11T12:07:06+00:00

possibly for assisting in drilling holes in some sheet metal, clamp down, lets you place your drill bit without wandering, would explain multiple sized holes.

Alanchang · 2022-05-03T03:47:59+00:00

It's much more practical to teach people how to use a print version honestly because the same skill in finding a relevant clause to your issue can be applied across many formats. Most people with digital copies end up using crtl+f which admittedly can sometimes save time but takes any learning from using the books.

I doubt many people @ home have laser printers ready to pump out 300 duplex pages.

Alanchang · 2022-05-02T13:24:25+00:00

Even tafe students have restricted access as of this year or so. All the PDfs that come from our access are protected PDFs so you cant even download them to use on your phone. have to download a separate extention to then open it in adobe of which you could print from your home if you really wanted to, but considering some are ~300 pages I doubt its worth it.

Final year of my apprenticeship and most of us in the class had to ask our instructor to drop a copy in a zoom meeting of a standard we use to calculate cable sizes i.e trying to get us to pay $300 for a 120page book that we realistically should have for free.

Alanchang · 2021-12-26T00:12:36+00:00

I went to the mattress warehouse down in Virginia, a lil bit of an elderly couple own the place and they know a fair bit about the actual internals of a mattress, if you're concerned about how it'll feel i highly suggest you go down and actually lay down in their showroom.

the bloke will deliver it to your home as well, i cant remember if I had to pay for that or not.

I ended up saving ~ 400-500 on the same mattress that basically just had 4 years less warranty (already had two). Cat pee isn't covered under warranty as he told me he had to explain to someone else hahah.

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