Off the air...why???

It was broken

Seems pretty happy to me:)
Cheers
Greg

Flat battery

Bill was not you alone, I had problems for awhile also.
Must have been broke and now it's fixed. NFI why.

It would appear that the Database went Kaput. (Technical term!)

Any parts of the site powered by a database such as Forum or Trader or Members list were returning no records for a while.

Cheers
Muddy

David must be trying to run it on Toyota parts

The problems obviously in your computer (or mobile phone)

at least thats what optus or telstra would tell you! even when Bigpond crashed and it was in all the papers, it wasnt their problem!!

I think that what the issue may have been was the isolator for the battery was kaput. There have been so many links about ways to wire up the dual battery system that the brain of the auto sparkie exploded.

the rapid movement of his turbo charged right arm and hand in an attempt at catching the exploded mass was unsuccessful; the grey matter just slimed through his fingers and fell to the ground. He nearly made it but the turbo fitted to his right arm was from a Series II GU Nissan and it just suddenly blew out a bucket load of white smoke and stopped. No warning.....nothing!!

He then had to climb down from a height not much lower than Ayers Rock [yes it is still Ayers Rock] to collect said exploded brain.Why so high you say; he was so bloody high up off the ground because the fourbie had the 6 inch lift, extended shockies and 38in Muddies fitted by ARB. Isn't that essential.

He had so far to go that to reach ground level that to get back up to the top he needed to fuel up his long range tank with diesel.

To pay for filling up his long range he had to work for 3 hours [at 100 bucks an hour] for the garage owner [fitting 5 hiclones to the garage owners Landcruiser to make the 100 series petrol donk start PRODUCING fuel, not use it].

3 hours paid for his 230 litres of diesel and he returned to the task of collecting his exploded brain, put it together again with a piece of fencing wire and chewing gum provided by Willem, climbed back up the ladder and refited the isolator for the second battery. Once that had been done he attached the 3 phase charger to his battery, with an inline fuse and solar charger backup and provided sustenance to the power source for the forum page.

2 hours later and we were all underway again, heading off to get a new deep cycle battery for the accessories we all have to have!!

Can't see what you blokes are concerned about. Bloody obvious I reckon!! Well done Dave, amazed at how quick you got us back on. These blokes just don't understand!!

Dave B