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This is a 30 amp service, with open knife switch fuse holder. Rick Miell Comments?
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I pity the fool who brushes up against it!
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Oh yes!!!! Right up my alley!!! I love those Frankenstein switches! Might pick up one when I go to Tijuana this coming week. Apparently they're still used for 30-amp services I notice the meter has been removed and replaced with a blanking plate. Who does this and how is the plate attached? Don't worry guys, If I do find that knife-switch, I will not install it in the apartment's electrical system.
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I've seen plenty of these indoors, but I do believe that this is the first time I've ever seen one outside.
Is the neutral fused or is this a 220 volt no neutral service.
Scary!
Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example.
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Here's a clearer picture from a Mexican manufacturer's website: And this is its corresponding 30-amp plug fuse
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Rick, Do you know how high above grade this was located?
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It’s a bit hard to make out, but Sven’s catalog find is perfect—the "disconnecting means” looks even more suicidal...index finger in a very spartan phenolic ring. It’s most likely that the “blanked-off” service is 120V (2-wire) with fused neutral. The object at 5 o’clock on the meter ring in the original image may be a padlock seal. { Plastic seal pic.} "No aprobado por los laboratorios debajo de escritores." ;-) [This message has been edited by Bjarney (edited 07-12-2003).]
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Meter was right at 6' from grade. The local utility removed the meter when customer, who had lived in the house for 60+ years, was put into a nursing home. Blank is held in place with the meter ring, which has a screw to tighten it around the meter base.
This is the 1st time I have seen one of these outdoors, though I have seen them over bathtubs, on back porches, and above door ways, but all were inside, not outside.
SVEN, send me your address and I will send you one of these, maybe even the one in the picture!
Rick
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It’s likely that the original installation was covered with a wooden “dog house” {made of the same material as the siding; topped with matching roofing material and fitted with a hinged door for the meter reader.}
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I have seen them over bathtubs...
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