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

[J Mcvey]

I think it was Sylvester the Cat. 

    On Friday, March 25, 2016 12:49 PM, Chris Bowne <aj1g at sbcglobal.net> 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!

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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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