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Submitted By -Noisy Transformer
I had a call to check out a noisy transformer. When I arrived at the home, the lady of the house told me that each morning just after sunup the transformer outside her bedroom window started making a knocking sound. I did a visual inspection and could not find any obvious problem. As I was walking around some bushes between the home and their neighbors, a lady asked what I was doing there. I explained that her neighbor had called about the noisy transformer. At this she started laughing and almost fell over. Finally when she got her breath back, she said that each morning as the sun shined on the back side of the tub the name plate acted as a mirror and a woodpecker would attack it thinking it was another bird. I climbed the pole and took a black magic marker and covered the shiny manufactures plate. I returned to the women who complained and told her that I fixed the problem. I did not have the heart to tell what the cause was.