Christmas lights

Nov 29, 2007 23 Replies

A relative had trouble with lights on the ground soon after having a GFCI installed. After a rain it kept tripping. The problem was caused by a combination of rain and fire ants, leading to mud on the wires.

Use a hose to wash the fire ants off the connection. ;-)

"Frank" wrote in news:4OudnVXj7_trvdLanZ2dnUVZ snipped-for-privacy@comcast.com:

Shocking news.

Should this occur, I would also suspect the hot water setting up a convection current that quickly cools the hot water heavily by evaporative cooling, and causes some of it to evaporate so that there is less of it to freeze.

Normally, the cold water freezes first.

- Don Klipstein ( snipped-for-privacy@misty.com)

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