flashlight
Senior Member
- Location
- NY, NY
- Occupation
- Electrician, semi-retired
I have encountered this issue on other threads recently ("me vs. customer", "split bolt connectors" etc.) and also in my own job.
It's almost like the elephant in the room. Obviously, and as we were all taught, standard practice is to deenergize any circuit you must work on.
However, in the real world in some cases, there are situations where hot work must be done. In my city (NY), I can't shut down 50 existing apartments to tap into the service bus. It is work approached with the utmost seriousness and caution and precautions-- by experienced people-- nonetheless dangerous.
A poster from L.A. (sorry I forget name) said in one of these threads that
he had no choice but to do it also. Some people from less populated areas said that they request a shutdown from the POCO and the homewner must wait if they have to. That's almost never done around here. Maybe it should be.
I realize this is a controversial topic. What do others think ?
It's almost like the elephant in the room. Obviously, and as we were all taught, standard practice is to deenergize any circuit you must work on.
However, in the real world in some cases, there are situations where hot work must be done. In my city (NY), I can't shut down 50 existing apartments to tap into the service bus. It is work approached with the utmost seriousness and caution and precautions-- by experienced people-- nonetheless dangerous.
A poster from L.A. (sorry I forget name) said in one of these threads that
he had no choice but to do it also. Some people from less populated areas said that they request a shutdown from the POCO and the homewner must wait if they have to. That's almost never done around here. Maybe it should be.
I realize this is a controversial topic. What do others think ?