brother
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I seem to have a sudden memory loss, does anyone know what connector to use to connect aluminum to copper wire??
I seem to have a sudden memory loss, does anyone know what connector to use to connect aluminum to copper wire??
What size wire are we talking about?
~Matt
and since this is a temporary hookup, (i do not agree with what the contractor used to hook this up TEMPORARY until the city inspector comes out to do the final check) the contractor basically used romex box connectors (YIKES) to hold this together and taped them!! Why not just use split bolts this would make it easy for the poco to make their transition too and still be legal??! good thing its only for 2 days.
This is actually a residential service, where the poco has 'copper' wire comming in, the the customer 's service entrance conductors (? ) goes to the meter is aluminum not branch circuit conductors. I was just curious as what butt splice or type of split bolts they use to connect the copper to aluminum wire. The size of the aluminum is 4/0 4/0 2/0 . I forget what size the drop from the pole is.
and since this is a temporary hookup, (i do not agree with what the contractor used to hook this up TEMPORARY until the city inspector comes out to do the final check) the contractor basically used romex box connectors (YIKES) to hold this together and taped them!! Why not just use split bolts this would make it easy for the poco to make their transition too and still be legal??! good thing its only for 2 days.
Alot of die hards get tired of the poco guys keeping their split bolts or taps. I've seen many people do exactly as you just said. But it seems the power company never says anything to them. just to save a dollar