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Help! A vixen ate my test leads.

Chris Pearson

A bit of light relief for you, if not me.

So, whilst making progress towards being PV ready, I was checking the PSCC and PEFC i.a.w. 643.7.3.201 (and Ze) at the origin. Whilst I was exposing the innards of DB1, which is in a corner of the garage, my MFT was sitting on a pile of logs nearby. I popped indoors to get a tool and found the young vixen looking not in the slightest bit guilty.

I can cope with the foxes using the lawn as a latrine. I can just about cope with them (and worse, badgers) digging holes in it. Worse still is digging up spuds. What takes the biscuit is eating my MFT leads! Rage

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  • She obviously has a taste for greens.

    I feel your irritation, having recently had a similar problem with our pet rabbits, who my wife lets onto the back lawn to cut it, who will both strip mains lead to the copper in one bite, and have front teeth that can penetrate the orange rubber style of propane hose leaving slow leak damage that is not immediately obvious . My son and I fell foul of this recently when a gas powered 5KVA genset we were working on got left out when the rabbits were released.  This made the next running-up to set up the voltage regulator far more exciting than it should have been !
    For now the mains lead has a soldered and heatshrink joint and the gas hose sports some strategic wraps of self amalgamating, but both of those ' running repairs ' will need to get sorted properly before we declare it "ready" to take back to the scout HQ. 

    M

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  • She obviously has a taste for greens.

    I feel your irritation, having recently had a similar problem with our pet rabbits, who my wife lets onto the back lawn to cut it, who will both strip mains lead to the copper in one bite, and have front teeth that can penetrate the orange rubber style of propane hose leaving slow leak damage that is not immediately obvious . My son and I fell foul of this recently when a gas powered 5KVA genset we were working on got left out when the rabbits were released.  This made the next running-up to set up the voltage regulator far more exciting than it should have been !
    For now the mains lead has a soldered and heatshrink joint and the gas hose sports some strategic wraps of self amalgamating, but both of those ' running repairs ' will need to get sorted properly before we declare it "ready" to take back to the scout HQ. 

    M

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