Trumpy, I think the limitations Bjarney is speaking of are those that show in the picture.
Bad things can happen pulling and replacing meters Hot.
As sparky said some times better to cut off the overhead but at some point you will be reconnecting Hot which brings its own problems.
We are finding more utilities going with "cold" sequence(Main ahead of CTs) metering for services above 400 amps.
Oh, if you have not seen the back side of an undamged meter I guess the picture is not much help. The meter shown has a lot of metal missing.
Hopefully the missing metal was not blasted on to any persons.
[This message has been edited by iwire (edited 05-02-2003).]
