"Clown Shoe Pilot" (csp)
11/03/2016 at 23:00 • Filed to: None
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"Clown Shoe Pilot" (csp)
11/03/2016 at 23:00 • Filed to: None | 3
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I finally got my electrical service entry installed last weekend. The 20' pole had been sitting in the yard for a month waiting for me to not be busy with F1 nonsense.
The guys from the electric company engineering brigade came out and checked it for general lack of jackassery and agreed it was fit for service, so they sent the man in the bucket truck to hook wires up to the transformer. However, the bucket truck guy didn’t like that he couldn’t personally inspect my grounding rod installation so he declined to put a meter in my meter base and instead installed a plastic cover with a big red tag on it!
I called the engineering guys again this morning and he said he’d come back out with the service manager. They did that earlier today and the engineer convinced everyone that my construction was worthy of pumping electrons. However, by the time everyone was convinced, it started raining like hell so they’ll install my meter in the socket tomorrow. Apparently they don’t like to do that sort of thing when everything is wet and messy. I can’t imagine why.
I guess I have to finish running the wires for all my lighting now, but moving the ladder around is a PITA. with all the stuff in the way.
Urambo Tauro
> Clown Shoe Pilot
11/03/2016 at 23:09 |
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I’m in the middle of a major wiring overhaul on my detached garage. The past few weekends have been filed with studying local requirements, running wires, and hand-digging a trench from the house for the main feed. I can’t wait to throw the switch!
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Clown Shoe Pilot
> Urambo Tauro
11/03/2016 at 23:17 |
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Hand trenching is bullshit. I had my irrigation guy cut me a 24" trench w/ his ditch witch and dropped my cable-filled conduit into that. He was already on site fixing all the stuff that got busticated when the building got laid in over top of existing irrigation, so the extra trench wasn’t much work.
I didn’t hook my workshop to the house because I’ve got stuff in the workshop that’ll outrun my main house panel and more importantly, there wasn’t a good way to connect them.
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Urambo Tauro
> Clown Shoe Pilot
11/03/2016 at 23:23 |
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I just didn’t want to bother with a separate meter lol.
A ditch witch would have been nice, but Miss Dig put up flags right in the middle of the path, so I would have only been able to use the machine for a few feet. Oh well.
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Clown Shoe Pilot
> Urambo Tauro
11/03/2016 at 23:25 |
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PEC is SUPER laid back so a separate meter was a breeze, grounding inspection excepted.