Charlie Bob
Senior Member
- Location
- West Tennessee
I was talking to this one customer about some work on his house, when he mention to me this story. He hired this one Electrician a while back to upgrade from fusebox to braker box.200 amp.
Apparently he (the electrician) didn't want to pull permit so the POCO was never call to disconnect service conductors, he told the home owner that he'd do it that way. He got up on a ladder and cut one wire at the time ,install new panel box,got back up the ladder and hooked wires back up. I don't know weather he crimped them or use split-bolts.
My thought is this:
Amps is what kills you.We all agree on that, but if he 's got the main breaker at panel box off. (so no amps coming from house), all he's got is voltage on service conductors, If he'd be grounded somehow or insulation on cutters was not good what kind of shock would he got?
and is there any chance of backfed amp coming from transformer?
Maybe you all can clarify this for me?
Apparently he (the electrician) didn't want to pull permit so the POCO was never call to disconnect service conductors, he told the home owner that he'd do it that way. He got up on a ladder and cut one wire at the time ,install new panel box,got back up the ladder and hooked wires back up. I don't know weather he crimped them or use split-bolts.
My thought is this:
Amps is what kills you.We all agree on that, but if he 's got the main breaker at panel box off. (so no amps coming from house), all he's got is voltage on service conductors, If he'd be grounded somehow or insulation on cutters was not good what kind of shock would he got?
and is there any chance of backfed amp coming from transformer?
Maybe you all can clarify this for me?