Hello Everyone
a week ago my POD was not able to charge and it is continuously showing RED indicator.
I ignored it as we are not using the Flight much and so have left it without charge, after 2 days one of the plugs in bed room caught fire and melted (even while switched off!)
so i removed it and disconnected the board completed and isolated it.
an electrician was called and he just cleaned all the mess and installed a new plug, but when we asked him what caused it (reason why we called him) he just left saying some short circuit!
meanwhile battery is completely dead, worrying that it might hurt the battery i went to check whats wrong with the pod, after confirming all the wires are in place, i got my portable charger and even it was showing red indicator when plugged in!,
have checked the grounding first - it was good, but both pod and portable charger refuse to turn green. so I started to play my tricks with the portable charger which I remember from long rides. one of the trick was to reverse the phase and neutral, the trick worked and portable charger turned green and i was able to charge the vehicle.
so, I wanted to check if the same trick works with POD but POD refused to give up (stayed red)!!!
I was confused as I was thinking Bescom must have reversed the phase and neutral, so i checked the plugs, to my surprise phase is on the right which is correct, I could not understand why portable charger started working with the phase reversed to left!!!, worried about flight safety i removed the charging.
now a strange phenomenon started on the third floor where mixer grinder is turning on automatically though switch was off, later that day 1st floor peoples washing machine started troubling.
after hearing above i checked neutral to ground with my multi-meter and I noticed there is come 10-20 fluctuating volts, so I got the issue - there was some leakage from neutral to ground in the building which is causing all the issues! so we unplugged all the appliances with 3 pin plugs and using others only when required. after checking with neighbors we got to know entire lane have similar issues at different parts of the day.
so bescom guy was called and a van showed-up today morning to investigate
I noticed that they are using some good old tech to figure out the issue with a bulb
finally after 4 long hrs they were able to isolate the building which is cause of the reverse surge (some issue with a building and also transformer)
POD turned green finally
just being curious I switched the terminals of the pod again (as reverse surge issue is sorted) but POD turned red
so moral of the story
POD is built like a tank, its a shield to the Flight.
u can play around with portable charger to a extent not POD
so when your POD turns red please don’t Ignore, (there might be some issue with the power line)