The story of how a bank guard called a private security company by pressing an electric kettle

I continue the cycle of life stories that happened to me or to my colleagues during their practice. Today I'll tell you about a security guard, in whose shift, for some unknown reason, the burglar alarm was constantly triggered.

The security guard worked in one of the banks on a schedule for a day or three. This was back in the era when there were no CCTV cameras, and people were on duty for days in the departments. The work is not dusty, and mostly pensioners were hired there.

And this story has two heroes: an electrician and a security guard. The first one liked to hang several outlets in a row on one circuit breaker with a rating of 16 amperes. And the second - he loved to sip tea at the workplace. And since the bank is full of people during the day, he drank tea, as a rule, at night.

And here's the situation: the guard puts on his electric kettle, the socket is loaded at 2.5 kW. Who knows, the socket is rated at 3.5 kW, so it's okay. But here's the bad luck: on the same machine there are a couple more sockets, into which something is also stuck.

Line overload occurs and alarms are continuously generated. The device enters emergency mode, most likely due to the fact that the automation regards the voltage drop as an attempt to cut off the power.

And when the kettle is already boiling and poured into a mug, a group arrives on call.

- "Petrovich, are you pressing the buttons again?"
- "No, I went to put the tea, but it itself."

When the cycle of Petrovich's repetitive actions began to bore the guys, they finally realized that it was his love for tea. They called my fellow electrician, and he solved this riddle of the Sphinx.

Several submachine guns were added to the dashboard, good were empty modules, separate lines for separate machines. And the false positives stopped. Avva electrician!