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LW issue w/ Blue arm again & PDQ's help

soonermajic

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So my arm is helicoptering again & Arch auto fail (or whatever the hel it says). It would ONLY do it on the back end of the cars, on the turn across or going up.
PDQ tech help was nice, helpful & patient. Did everything they could, from a distance, to help, but sometimes you need boots on the ground.

Well, I kept thinking & noticed I had a busted festoon roller (or holder or clamp). I climb up & take a look & 'voila, where it was broke, the bracket that holds the festoon, right before it goes into the bridge, was hitting the festoon & had cut through til 3 wires were exposed! I taped it up, cut a piece of rubber gasket from an old hp hose & put it on the metal bracket. Worked great for an hour.....then BOOM! A transformer blew up right beside my wash, about 35' away, knocked me off my dam ladder onto the concrete! WTH??!!!
Now, no power til they get transformer fixed. Any chance that could've damaged my LW or SS equipment? It damaged my back & my pride! LOL
 

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Sounds like you used the wrong kind of tape to blow up a city transformer.

Hopefully it didn't hurt the machine. You might want to consider whole building surge protection.
 

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Sounds like you used the wrong kind of tape to blow up a city transformer.

Hopefully it didn't hurt the machine. You might want to consider whole building surge protection.
MEP I about fell in the floor. Wrong kind of tape...lol
 
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