SSC Pigtail Failure

[bwhite505]

I have 16 Northpoles in my display.   Each is supported on a sleeve of 1" PVC hammered into the lawn. I must have hammered one through a sprinkler line  because the gardener was here today and turned on the sprinklers when he left. All was well until that particular line pressured up and needless to say a giant mud projectile shot up into the pole followed by a massive geyser of water and more mud. Long story short the pigtail shorted out and burned up some of the conductors.  I figured the fuse in the hub had blown but it was fine.  Cut the pigtail off and crimped on a new end added a coupler and was back in business.

[Mickpat]

You maybe able to clean the pigtail and remove the black build-up.  I tried that on a few of mine and it worked.  Like you, I have a very wet area and think I am going to remove the pigtails all together.

See this thread for other thoughts.
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[bwhite505]

Two of the pins are completely burned off. I just cut it off and crimped a new end on and added a monoprice coupler.

[chrisatpsu]

hopefully you fixed the broken water line   



course, now that would be a nice effect of water shooting up in the yard (minus the smoke)

[bwhite505]

Water line is on the to do for Saturday.  Wish I could have seen the pole lift off when it came on.  Have to go back and see if we caught on the security cameras.

[rrowan]

I have to say it doesn't surprise me

Pigs don't like to get a bath and neither do pigtails   

(Hey its Friday, its been a long difficult week…. thats my story and I am sticking to it)

Cheers

Rick R.

[Mickpat]

I pulled out the 5 smart strings I was having trouble with this winter to test before putting them away and they all worked perfectly.  Looks like they had enough time to dry out.