Gale Hawkins wrote: Seriously as I get older I enjoy a good water well and no neighbors in sight to see report what I am doing.
We had nosy neighbors for a while, solved that by building a 7 foot high 160 foot long concrete block wall between us. Problem solved, neighbors converted from bad to good.
"Good fences make good neighbors."
We should build a wall like that around America..
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We get the odd cable and telephone outage in our area, and as the pole is in the rear of our yard get to watch what is going on, several times the repair PERSON (must be politically correct here) has found spider nests in the grey junction box on the lines. Seems like they swarm the same as garter snakes and bees, and will cut services. And as an aside, I HATE SPIDERS ...........
That will do it. The spider's web/nest would have caused a partial hot/ground short and even a very small amount of current on that path will cause a GFCI to sense imbalance between hot and neutral, and that's what trips a GFCI, 100% of the time that's what trips a GFCI cause that's what trips a GFCI.
So it makes sense
Too bad about the poor flash fried spider though
Suggestion.. Coax-seal, this is a product you can find at some radio stores (or Silicon tape) use it to seal the outlet box completly so the spider's relatives can not access to take up residence again. IT's good, it's water tight (heck silicon tape is AIR tight) and it works
Silicon tape is sold as "Emergency tape" as well as under it's real name Radio Shack used to sell it under it's real name. don't know if they still do.
Nothin adds excitment like something that is none of your business John is Near Kenwood TS-2000 housed in a 2005 Damon Intruder 377
wa8yxm wrote: That will do it. The spider's web/nest would have caused a partial hot/ground short and even a very small amount of current on that path will cause a GFCI to sense imbalance between hot and neutral, and that's what trips a GFCI, 100% of the time that's what trips a GFCI cause that's what trips a GFCI.
Something else that was odd about this. Once the GFCI was reset, it would take about 5/6 seconds to trip. I've never seen that before either. I'm used to seeing a GFCI trip almost immediately when it senses something is wrong.
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