Reply to post: Re: Squirrels. Mice. Rats.

Squirrel sinks teeth into SAN cabling, drives Netadmin nuts

heyrick Silver badge

Re: Squirrels. Mice. Rats.

Last year, lights went really dim at home. I popped open the junction box under the meter and found that there was only around 100V instead of 220ish on two phases, and 80V on the other phase. Phone call to ESC AND in a few hours they turned up, verified that it wasn't us. With the house out of circuit (something they can do by measuring before the meter), they confirmed that one or was dead.

Took them all day to fix it. The scenario - a large bird across the medium voltage lines (what is that, 22kV or something?) shorted which caused an arc powerful enough to sever the wire, which then caused the step down transformer to fail trying to run off only two phases (prob when milking equipment kicked in in nearby farms).

An animal in the wrong place can cause all sorts of havoc.

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