OT: Rats!

[AngryScientist]

grumble.

wife informs me this morning that the pool filter will not run. hmmm

outdoor lights: no-go

check garage: breaker for outdoor lights tripped. will not reset.

disconnect everything, no faults in any plugs/lights/filter/etc.

continued isolation; conclusion: buried feeder cable shorted somehow.

trace cable path, unearth most of the cable until little dug hole found and wire chewed through.

I can only hope the little bastard nuked himself when he took the wire out.

grumble over. unexpected project underway.

[redir]

It certainly looks like he got nuked.

When we lived in the old farm house we had mice, at least until we got cats then I never saw another mouse in the house, and they had me worried about starting fires with the VERY old wiring in the house. Once in a while my Truck would not start for the same reasons.

[charliedid]

Is that code?

[NHAero]

Nick, is that rated as direct burial?
When I did my EV charger installation I spent the extra $ and put the wiring in conduit, just didnt want to worry about 7-8 kW going where it shouldn't.

It's always something!

[AngryScientist]

Originally Posted by NHAero

Nick, is that rated as direct burial?
When I did my EV charger installation I spent the extra $ and put the wiring in conduit, just didnt want to worry about 7-8 kW going where it shouldn't.

It's always something!

it is indeed direct bury wire, or was.

It's replacement is going inside of aluminum flex armor conduit.

It really is always something.

[Turkle]

Last night I plugged in my outdoor lights and half of them didn't turn on. A quick examination revealed that while I was cutting ivy off my fence the day before, I accidentally severed the electrical wire that led to my lights with the electric trimmer.

I'm just glad they weren't plugged in when I did so!

Anyway. Oops. Can't blame the rats for that one.

[C40_guy]

Originally Posted by Turkle

Last night I plugged in my outdoor lights and half of them didn't turn on. A quick examination revealed that while I was cutting ivy off my fence the day before, I accidentally severed the electrical wire that led to my lights with the electric trimmer.

I'm just glad they weren't plugged in when I did so!

Anyway. Oops. Can't blame the rats for that one.

Hmm...I found a curious brown root when I was digging up a bush in the garden.

Turns out that root was delivering nutrients to the lamp post

Then turned out that a direct burial splice was faster/quicker/cheaper than waiting for my electrician to fix it.

[NHAero]

Originally Posted by Turkle

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Anyway. Oops. Can't blame the rats for that one.

Or at least the 4 legged ones

[robt57]

Damn Mynocks.

[reuben]

The first time Iived in the woods I just used small diameter PVC pipe to protect from field mice, groundhogs, etc.

[johnniecakes]

In the grand scheme of things a first world problem.

[2LeftCleats]

Twice they chewed through pex water pipes in my crawl space

[NHAero]

Originally Posted by 2LeftCleats

Twice they chewed through pex water pipes in my crawl space

Hope they at least drowned

[54ny77]

metal conduit for the win.

since they can (and do) eat pvc.

[72gmc]

Originally Posted by NHAero

Hope they at least drowned

They probably had fun at the spray park!