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Live from Louisiana
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Got up this morning to check the new fridge out. I put a bottle of water in freezer. It was partly frozen. Open the fridge and light was off. I’ll be a mother fer. Breaker was tripped and nearest place on a Sunday is over an hour away. Karma giving me the big dick here lately.
Next 10 days are stupid hot.
Next 10 days are stupid hot.
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Can you just swap it for now with another circuit that’s not as important?
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I definitely could but nothing is marked. It’s working fine now on another outlet w a heavy gauge extension cord. Probably will change them all out when I come back or just have some extras when needed.
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Could be but doubt it. Isn’t an outlet where you plug and unplug a bunch wearing it out. But I will change it also.
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So had an older gentleman that used to be an electrician camping here in the campground. With not using any power it was showing .4 amps. Then we plugged a heat gun into the outlet and was pulling almost 15 amps. Never tripped. Then we plugged the fridge into it drawing 1 amp and then it tripped. Unplugged it and tested the wire and it was showing power w it off. Probably got a chewed wire somewhere. That’s gonna have to be fixed at another time. Might just run a new wire.
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Dang. No problems with other outlets? If you had power on it when the breaker was off, then you likely have power over the neutral. Which isn't crazy because you can get low phantom voltage from a wire that runs alongside the dead wire for a bit. Or a shared neutral on a multi- wire branch circuit where two circuits are sharing the same neutral. They sometimes do this to save wire. You can usually spot it by following the hot leg off the breaker back to the romex. If there is more than a black, white, and bare in there, follow the other one back and see if it is connected to another different breaker. Trip that breaker also, and you should lose voltage on the neutral. Modern code required those two breakers to be joined so when one is off, they're both off. But this wasn't always the case. Either way, I bet you have a bad neutral somewhere on the circuit. Before you run wires, check your neutrals in outlets and fixtures. One of those cheap plug-in testers will help find it also.
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Ain’t no neutral lines in this old thing. Breaker was on and it was using .4 amps. It was off and had continuity in the wire. Figure it out later.
Went duck hunting this morning. Should had my limit. One flew over and I killed it. 3 came in and I guessed I rushed and shot 2 times hitting nothing then killing on last shot. Not much flying and was foggy.
Going home today, had enough of this weather.
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Got home at dark last night. A buddy called and said let’s go duck hunting. 4 hours later everything was ready except for a dead battery. It’s old and I haven’t ran it since September. Put charger on it and 7 hours later the charger said it was charged. Tried to start it but wouldn’t. Met at the launch where I hooked up my starter pack and we rolled out. Set up and as we were throwing decoys, teal was landing in on us. Got in the grass and started shooting. About a half hour lull, then we finished our limit w 12 green winged teal. Pearl killed it chasing down 5 cripples, I never stood up off my bucket.
On the way home I called my dad’s best friend, uncle Lou and told him to meet me at the gas station where I handed him my limit of teal. After I stopped and picked up a burlap sack of oysters. Then stopped and got propane so I can euro my two buck heads.
On the way home I called my dad’s best friend, uncle Lou and told him to meet me at the gas station where I handed him my limit of teal. After I stopped and picked up a burlap sack of oysters. Then stopped and got propane so I can euro my two buck heads.
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You have no idea! He loves game and was raised on it, most ole timers were. Hes my last connection to dad. Love that man!
I give him deer, ducks, fish, frog legs…..shit anything he wants. He loves coots. Might try to hustle him up some this year.
Yeah especially when we get to the point where the mind wants too, but the body says fuck that!
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Dad said when he was a kid, every front that came through he had to get on the roof to get the dead coots off. They would hit the power lines in the dark. When I was a kid, coots by the thousands everywhere and scaup that would darken the skies riding in the boat in the lake for miles and miles. At one point, they had an extra 5 ducks you could shoot beside your limit of ducks of scaup. Not no more, barely see a band on the lake and can only shoot 2 after two weeks in second season. How things have changed.
When I was a kid, dad wouldn’t build a blind unless we jumped 500 ducks out of a pond. And this was public. Just about every time we would kill 10 gadwalls a piece before 8 o’clock.