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Posted by =?ISO-8859-15?Q?Tekkie=AE?= on May 14, 2008, 7:41 pm
David Nebenzahl posted for all of us...
> On 5/8/2008 3:28 PM Mikko Peltoniemi spake thus:
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> > Frank wrote:
> >
> >> Whenever I hear a BOOM (like a bomb blast) I know the whole neighborhood
> >> goes down without power, either mine or another neighborhood down stream on
> >> another feeder. That BOOM comes from an adjacent substation tripping a high
> >> voltage, high current circuit breaker. So breakers do go BOOM, just not the
> >> little house breakers.
> >
> > Since all it turned out to be was a loose wire, I can only assume the
> > boom that I heard was actually a door slamming. That door slam then
> > rattled the wire just enough to become undone, and thus breaking the
> > circuit...
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> Hey, good detective work there. You're ready to become a real
> electrician. All you gotta do is remember the 3 rules:
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> 1. Hot on the left, cold on the right.
> 2. Paydays are on Friday.
> 3. Shit flows downhill.
>
> Oops, I guess that's for being a plumber ...
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4. Don't bite your fingernails.
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