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.
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...
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).]
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.
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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