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

[Richard Knoppow]

     How did you get him off?

On 3/25/2016 9:49 AM, Chris Bowne wrote:
> 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!
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> On Mar 24, 2016, at 21:57, Dennis Monticelli 
> <dennis.monticelli at gmail.com <mailto: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 <mailto: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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Richard Knoppow
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