Neutral issue. Don't be that person.

ptonsparky

ptonsparky

Tom
Location
NE (9.06 miles @5.9 Degrees from Winged Horses)
Occupation
EC - retired
Don't trust the POCO or the previous EC.

House just a couple years old has had issues since day one. EC says my side is good. Area POCO says all good on his side.

Recently a new building added to the sight and it was discovered the neutral had never been connected at the POCO pad mount secondary.

How in the holy hell do you miss that from day one?

Pictures when I get one.
 
ptonsparky said:
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Not quite what I envisioned. Guessing the EC put neutral in lug but factory connection of lug to buss was substandard. Still, how the heck do you miss this when neutral problems have been evident almost from the beginning?
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With no marks where there was arcing, it almost looks like it was never attached
 
How can your crap even work they would be blowing thing in there home left and right— EC fault and power company—- and the inspector! Shows your money going to the government really pays
 
ptonsparky said:
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Not the inspectors job.
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Our electrical inspectors do inspect our work inside the meters, as do the utility reps prior to energizing it.

I'm confused by the picture, did the two mounting screws that hold the lug down strip out? Was the wire removed from the lug that's being held in the picture. Was the neutral just floating there when the meter got unplugged, Yikes!

Rob G
Seattle
 
Vent alert...What really irks me to no end is that more than once it was complained about and supposedly checked out and we now see that was all BS. Sometimes I wonder how the lights stay on with the number of people that just don't even do the minimum for what they are being paid.
 
ptonsparky said:
Neutral buss in POCO pedestal. EC would have made this connection, then no longer have access once the meter was installed.
IDK if it's single or double. A pad mount would not be very far away.
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Must be different in your area. We never connect line conductors on an underground service, POCO does. We would only connect line to meter on an overhead service.
 
marmathsen said:
Since the conductors are connected on the bottom lugs of the meter those would be the load (customer) side. Utility side gets connected to the top

Rob G
Seattle
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That's the way I've always found them but the meter base in the picture has a sticker that says" bottom feed". I didn't know if that was just referring to it being an underground meter base, or meaning the POCO feed lands on the bottom.
 
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