Buck Parrish
Senior Member
- Location
- NC & IN
Trying to find a bad spot in the urd #2 AL direct burial cable. When I touched the NC Tester to the cable in the ground. It would not alert to power being present. This is one of the good NC Testers made in to the meter / amp probe.
We checked the cable as it went in to the conduit and it alerted. (beep beep)
I'm thinking the voltage dissipated through the ground some how in the bad spot.
Since the customer was there I went ahead and uncovered it about 10 ft back to the meter. The uncovered part would alert as voltage present. But not when it was in contact with the ground.
The bad spot must be about 40-50 ft out where a truck got stuck. I never did find it. But I didn't install it, either.
It will have to be dug up.
My question is. If you have 240 - 120 on each line will that dissipate through the earth from the broke or bare spot? Or will the electrical wave the NC Tester requires to be effective, will that wave dissipate through the ground?
We checked the cable as it went in to the conduit and it alerted. (beep beep)
I'm thinking the voltage dissipated through the ground some how in the bad spot.
Since the customer was there I went ahead and uncovered it about 10 ft back to the meter. The uncovered part would alert as voltage present. But not when it was in contact with the ground.
The bad spot must be about 40-50 ft out where a truck got stuck. I never did find it. But I didn't install it, either.
It will have to be dug up.
My question is. If you have 240 - 120 on each line will that dissipate through the earth from the broke or bare spot? Or will the electrical wave the NC Tester requires to be effective, will that wave dissipate through the ground?