[ARC5] "I Hates Meeces Tuh Pieces!..."

[Chris Bowne]

What cartoon character said that anyway?  Tom from Tom and Jerry?

We have a pots lamp in the garden with an outlet box about 18 inches above grade. Usually keep the circuit off during the winter.  Last spring when I tried to turn it in the GFCI in the circuit tripped.  Ant nest in the outlet box.  Gross!

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> On Mar 24, 2016, at 21:57, Dennis Monticelli <dennis.monticelli at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> OK.  My turn.
> 
> Back when I was a 15 yr old novice my antenna was a low 40M dipole.  A large blue jay liked to crap on my center insulator making a mess of it.  One day I noticed the jay sitting astride the insulator, one foot on each leg of the dipole.  I ran inside turned on my Viking II, loaded it to full suds on a dummy load, switched it over to the dipole, and then pounded down on my navy key.  I heard a single loud blood-curdling squawk and then silence.  Did the jay fly away?  I couldn't see from my window.  I ran back outside and found him hanging under the insulator, both feet still gripping the wires, with feathers orthogonal to his body. Such a satisfying sight :-)
> 
> Dennis AE6C
> 
>> On Thu, Mar 24, 2016 at 1:19 PM, Kenneth G. Gordon <kgordon2006 at frontier.com> wrote:
>> On 24 Mar 2016 at 18:49, J Mcvey via ARC5 wrote:
>> 
>> > The weirdest mouse electrocution I ever saw was in an antique VT electronic
>> > organ.This particular design ran all of the Ac and DC voltage requirements on
>> > bare bussbars horizontally across the back. The mouse was stuck  perfectly
>> > vertical to the rails like a third rail electric train electrocution. he popped
>> > off pretty easy, though...;)
>> 
>> In my case, it was a small squirrel or chip-munk. It had gotten into the main
>> cage of our mountain-top 25KW TV transmitter, had crawled directly under
>> the single insulated lead from the center-tap of the HV transformer which
>> was about 2" from the bottom of the cage, and had received a good jolt
>> through its skull, killing it instantly.
>> 
>> We experienced several intermittant shut-downs of the transmitter at odd
>> times over the next several weeks, and couldn't figure out what was
>> happening.
>> 
>> We finally discovered the decomposing corpse which was swelling up as it
>> decomposed, shorting out the lead, blowing the main breaker, the shot of HV
>> would open up the corpse so that it leaked all the gas, then it would do it
>> again in a few days.
>> 
>> Since the cage had a 25 HP blower in it blowing all the heat, and the stink,
>> out side, we never suspected it until we just happened to find it after finally
>> doing a very diligent search inside the HV cage.
>> 
>> Ken W7EKB
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