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Guess which neighbor has the eight dollar a month energy bill, and which one complained about excessive use? ops:

How would the meter even register if the main was off? Through the neutral?



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Tom Erfert, Code Enforcement Specialist, Yuma, Arizona

No registered reading on the meter, the eight dollar charge was a monthly service charge.

Maybe he was trying to derate for that seriously packed looking conduit on the bottom? Wonder what happened to the insulators for the left breakers bus bars?

-Randy

Is this arrangement of different services running onto main breakers in one panel common on duplex and triplex buildings?

So to fix his complaint did you turn off the breaker on the left and turn on the right one? Use breaker locks?

Or you could flip flop the service wires to each breaker and leave them on and off like they are now. The one tenant would not know what is going on when he gets his bill.

Easyest change the numbering on the meters.

No one said anything about the missing bushing on the bottom.

Tom

If I wanted to steal power from a neighbor or the landlord, I'd move only one of the two hot wires. Less obvious that the theft is happening, as consumption still shows on my meter ("I'm conserving energy") and the victum sees only a milder increase.

Of course I never did such things...

Active1 wrote:

That looks like PVC coming in from the "rope burns" cutting through the threads...

At first I thought it was ridgid. I forget the rest of the world uses PVC above ground.

Tom

Anyone want to point to the exception not requiring bushings on PVC?

PVC or not 4 AWG or larger in a raceway needs a bushing.

Bob

Bob,
I believe you, but I've never seen a bushing on a PVC connector, nor ever been called on for not having one!

Just another thing I've learned from ECN!

-Randy