(submitted via Joe Tedesco)



[This message has been edited by Webmaster (edited 02-10-2005).]

Is that upside down!!

I didnt know they made set screw connectors rated 3r? it does look upside down! and M/C for service entrance?

it won't take too much rain to fill that up

The ss connector is rated 3R when it is used below a meter. The meter protects the fitting from having water enter the "top." Of course the meter can being upside down doesn't help!

Bets on the next fire??

This is classic!

Scorch marks for previus meter explosion.
Liquid tight flex feed is the same from the fire before. Might be the same wire too.(Vandlism is "Subject to Physical Damage")
No ring on the meter, it was set under the cover, when this joker put the seal on himself, live at that maybe.

Cut at street with police escort....

You said a mouth full there, in my opinion this is one of the worst violations of code, safety and commonsense that has been posted here!

It just amazes me, did a Power company put the seal on this?????

Even if someone had some seals (I do ) you would think the meter reader would take note.

I would be afraid to touch this at all, for fear of shocks or causing it to 'light up'!

I do not think we are looking at liquid-tight unless the plastic all melted off, (very possible) I think it is FMC entering into a SS EMT connector!



I wonder if there is a bonding busing on that FMC/EMT adapter......?

Like it would help

As for the 'missing ring' this at least is a 'ring-less' meter socket, in my area these have been required for quite awhile. They are much more secure than the ring type especially if the POCO puts their lock on the cover.

Now is the meter itself upside down?



I can not tell, I really wonder which way it spins, do they get a bill or a credit each month?

This should really be reported to the AHJ and the power company.

Still shaking my head....right on a public sidewalk.

Bob

I took me several looks to realise what the "upside down" remark was all about...
I believe that the meter pan is upside-down; at the bottom of the can is what appears to be the top piece of a Nema-3R can.
(It was probably put in that way because that's where the hub is)

Upside Down - Absolutely- it's a Cutler- Hammmer In the USA - I don't think so. I believe:
It's Argentina. "CPE" as on the new meter is the Cooperativo Popular de Electricidad. The old meter would have been unreadable due to smoke damage.
No Code, no violation.


[This message has been edited by electure (edited 02-11-2005).]

The sign painted on the window has an accent over the "o"; the "7" has a bar across it. Therefore, I surmise that that picture probably isn't from the United States.

Meter is definitely upside down. Tag seal latch is always on the bottom. Who's the goofus bonehead that pulled this off and wasn't the City Inspector involved. What a hack!

Any of you fellas ever been to mexico?? I bet more of those people south of the border are killed by 'lectrocution, then trying to cross the border

Yup...been to Tijuana...back in 2000...wires coming up out of the ground from a light pole with open splices and wires roped to the pole just high enough so people could walk under them.I didn't dare touch anything metal.

Also remember the warning signs on the highway on the way to Tijuana depicting a Mexican family fleeing across the highway...probably scared to death of the countries wiring

shortcircuit

Just to clarify Indcom's statement:

Meter is NOT upside down.

Meter BOX is, however.

And I've also seen "Tijuanese" wiring. Same jury-rigged stuff I run across here as a causal observer in New York City.

Why should things be any different anywhere you go.

Thanks Sven A hack is a hack, regardless of where they are.
I inspected some new work in TJ that was every bit as good as any of the stuff I've seen here. They're getting better, even though they've still got a long way to go.


I posted that CPE was not in Mexico, but I was wrong...one more time. I just found a pic I had from Mex with CPE written on the meter...Sorry

[This message has been edited by electure (edited 02-16-2005).]

The upside down meter socket was in puerto vallarta mexico. I was walking by and had to take a picture. The meter was in right side up, weather they get a bill or a credit is unknow.
p.s. When we walked back I walked on other side of the street.

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