ECN Forum Forums General Topics of the Trade General Discussion Area service tie in methods

LK I don't see how the wind would put stress at the drip loop, the lateral is secured to the riser in such a way there is no tension whatsoever on the connectors. Anyway where I'm at the POCO shows up within 7 days so there only temporary anyway. Of course there are the guys doing un-permitted ones, their connections are final as no inspector shows up to notify the POCO to re connect.

The local poco told me that it's freezing water that pushes the conductor out of the crimp. That's why they usually use crimps with endcaps.

Our local PoCo forbids anyone but themselves to touch the connections at the weatherhead. This applies to cutting them free to begin a service change, temporarily restoring power after a change, or ANY reason. 25 yrs ago they got tough on this, having had enough of the disasterous results of careless clowns who just couldn't treat these connections with the respect they deserved!

Now you call them and schedule...and wait for them on both ends. Sometimes it's 2-4 hrs before the re-energizing, but usually it is quite prompt, within 2 hrs of the inspectors call,

I have been using the butt splice's for years and never an issue. They are cheap and they work well. Cover it with linerless rubber tape and then some "33" and it will be there for years.
I do plan on upgrading to a crimp sytem at some point. I figure I counld have paid for the tool by now by just getting some crimp connectors from the N Star guys when ever you see one.

Yep poorboy, that sounds familer. Good ole CMP