Nice job finding those chewed wires plus dealing with helicopter customer. Seemed nice enough just hard to focus on the task at hand with him sharing his life history.
Guy is lucky you don't have to crawl under house and run new wire because his pocket would be hurtin. I bet it's nasty under there and low. 😨 sucks if a call back and you see more chewing under the house. That's happened to me before.
Hey fun fact. manufacturing is actually making wires now adays out of food grade plastic, thats why animals are always chewing up wiring. the ones that arent food grade are double the price. and we as techs think nothing of it! Is it really worth the head aches of cheaping out on wiring,
Yep. Engineers might know quiet a bit, just never seen one prove it in the real world yet. I get a kick out of it when my technical college degree whips a university degree.
I can't stand it when customers treat you like an internet chat room while you're trying to work. That and asking if you've found anything every time you walk past them. I just want to scream if I find anything you'll be the first person I tell because you'll be giving me money to fix it!
Have you ever tried using the short pro tool? It trips if you have a short and you get a red light as long as you have a short and goes out when the short is cleared without having to be resetting the circuit breaker. Once the repair is made reset the short pro and everything is back to normal.
I like your reset fuse. I made a similar one years ago for working on servo drives. When special fuses cost 15 dollars each and worse yet is when you have no more.
At least the engineer did ruled out one thing though by pressing the contractor, the unit did worked, it was just not turning on, due to the reason that you discovered there.
