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#110613 05/30/06 02:28 PM
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General contractor was impatient to get temporary power so he jumpered the meter. It was raining that day so I stayed outside the PPE range for the photo and then had it cut at the pole.

Next day he hired an electrician.
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#110614 05/30/06 02:59 PM
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NICE!!!!!
Amazing how some people just don't realize what danger they put themselves in doing things like that... Not to mention the danger they put others in as well!!
What did the POCO say when they came to cut the juice off? I hope the General got a good verbal " tune up" or a fine of some kind...

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#110615 05/30/06 03:09 PM
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That looks like a really old meter can. Was this going to be replaced?

#110616 05/30/06 03:57 PM
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Holy bat guano!!! Did anyone else notice he crossed the phases between line and load too?!!

Major Darwin Award to that GC clown. He'd be fired if he ever worked for me.

Stupid, stupid, stupid!!


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#110617 05/30/06 09:00 PM
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My parents had a tree fall during an ice storm which ripped down the service cable. It was that twisted stuff. The phase conductors were intact but the neutral snapped.

Power company was swamped for days so I used a car battery jumper cable to bridge the snapped neutral. Used both cables in parallel so the load capacity was more than enough.

Now if it was a phase conductor that was broken I would not have done this.

[This message has been edited by Gus99 (edited 05-30-2006).]

#110618 05/31/06 06:56 AM
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Car jumper leads are not even insulated for 120 or 240 Volts anyway.

I wonder if that guy used any proper insulating gloves or some kichen type gloves.

Lucky that no kid stuck its fingers in that meter pan.


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#110619 05/31/06 07:52 AM
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My code book just burst into flames....

In an emergency I might do it.... Like grandma's ventilator is offline.
I think it violates that electrical code thingy.....

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#110620 05/31/06 04:49 PM
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Holy Crap......

I hope someone got fined for this.

This looks like one of the stupid things the journeyman I apprenticed under would have tried.

Thankfully you had the power turned off before someone was killed.

#110621 06/01/06 03:36 AM
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General contractor was impatient to get temporary power so he jumpered the meter.
I might have known there was a GC involved with this, with only seeing the picture.
"I run the site, you do as you are told on the site, what I say goes on the site, I make the laws and rules on the site"
No Electrician would lower themselves to this level, especially using a redneck thing like LV Jumper leads.

#110622 06/01/06 07:37 AM
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Anyone who takes personalsafteylike this should be cited,fined,and possibly imprisioned. As someone whos dad was killed in a industrial accident this bozo who did this should not even call themselves a GC.

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