{"id":451,"date":"2010-05-27T15:17:15","date_gmt":"2010-05-27T19:17:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/captainelectric.wordpress.com\/?p=56"},"modified":"2019-06-12T08:12:53","modified_gmt":"2019-06-12T12:12:53","slug":"the-captain-and-the-mouse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/captainelectric.ca\/blog\/the-captain-and-the-mouse\/","title":{"rendered":"The Captain and The Mouse"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Captain runs into all kinds of unusual things. &nbsp;This time it was a dead mouse. &nbsp;One of our clients called their HVAC company because their air conditioner was not working. &nbsp;The AC technician came to examine the problem and the first thing he looked at was the power supply to the air conditioner.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter is-resized\"><a href=\"http:\/\/captainelectric.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/mouse-in-outlet-box.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/captainelectric.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/mouse-in-outlet-box-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-672\" width=\"580\" height=\"436\" srcset=\"https:\/\/captainelectric.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/mouse-in-outlet-box.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/captainelectric.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/mouse-in-outlet-box-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/captainelectric.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/mouse-in-outlet-box-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/captainelectric.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/mouse-in-outlet-box-510x382.jpg 510w, https:\/\/captainelectric.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/mouse-in-outlet-box-960x720.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 580px) 100vw, 580px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>He opened up the box on the air conditioner and almost fell over because across the terminals was a dead mouse.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He then measured the voltage and discovered that one leg of the 220V feed was not powered. &nbsp;He said call an electrician.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We dispatched our electrician who listened to the lady&#8217;s story and he asked her to show him where the mouse was found. &nbsp;He looked at the wire and sure enough <a href=\"https:\/\/captainelectric.ca\/lighting-and-wiring\/knob-tube-wiring\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">the poor mouse had bitten through the wire <\/a>and electrocuted himself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/captainelectric.ca\/lighting-and-wiring\/wiring-and-rewiring\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Our technician fixed the wire<\/a> and now the air conditioner works.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I hope the afterlife for mice isn&#8217;t hot.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Captain runs into all kinds of unusual things. &nbsp;This time it was a dead mouse. &nbsp;One of our clients called their HVAC company because their air conditioner was not working. &nbsp;The AC technician came to examine the problem and the first thing he looked at was the power supply [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[192],"tags":[35,58,91,117],"class_list":["post-451","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-company-news","tag-captain-electric","tag-electrician","tag-rewiring","tag-wiring"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/captainelectric.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/451","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/captainelectric.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/captainelectric.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/captainelectric.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/captainelectric.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=451"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/captainelectric.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/451\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/captainelectric.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/captainelectric.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/captainelectric.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}