wilcharl
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Folks:
Long time user of this site for reference at work, but a visit to my parents house Labor Day weekend brought my first posting.
Their house was built in 1972 in Atlanta Georiga. Questions I have is why the requirement for the below:
1) The house is wired with NM cable . 100% copper (not clad) However, at every device, the NM cable is cut within an inch of entering the box and both the conductor and neutral are crimped to about a 3" tail before entering the device. Lighting circuits, recepticles, switches, all the same. One of the strangest things I have seen. My late grandmothers house , in the same neighborhood turns out to be the same. All the crimps are in good quality electrical tape . Just curious what was the driving force behind this, was this some wonkey requiremnet? I could see if it was aluminum and they did a mechanical crimp to copper but this is all 100% copper. I even thought maybe they did it for a quicker install (kind of a 1970s version of P&S plug tails) to install the devices quicker but they were stab-in outlets so that doesn't make sense... Wondering what made them do this?????
2) Their service... power comes overhead, hits a weatherhead, enters the house (SE cable) drapes across the attic goes about 25 feet into a brick wall to the meter box. Comes out of the meter box goes another 50 feet or so before it hits the panel. I do not believe it is fused which is scaring me with the loose SE cable draped across the attic. The weirdness here is, the meterbox is stamped PROPERTY OF GEORGiA POWER, and the loadcenter had a sticker stating that it was owned and maintained by Georgia Power. Never heard of the power company owning that far into your house. Georgia Power clearly states on their website and in their blue book that the watherhead and SE cable to the meter and to the panel are customer owned but I wonder if this was perhaps grandfathered in since its stamped property of Georgia Power and they could fix it ( the cable has some damage in the attic from being yanked after a tree came down on the drop from the street)
Appreciate it if some old timer or someone that has been around more then me has seen either of these instances before and has some logic behind them !
Long time user of this site for reference at work, but a visit to my parents house Labor Day weekend brought my first posting.
Their house was built in 1972 in Atlanta Georiga. Questions I have is why the requirement for the below:
1) The house is wired with NM cable . 100% copper (not clad) However, at every device, the NM cable is cut within an inch of entering the box and both the conductor and neutral are crimped to about a 3" tail before entering the device. Lighting circuits, recepticles, switches, all the same. One of the strangest things I have seen. My late grandmothers house , in the same neighborhood turns out to be the same. All the crimps are in good quality electrical tape . Just curious what was the driving force behind this, was this some wonkey requiremnet? I could see if it was aluminum and they did a mechanical crimp to copper but this is all 100% copper. I even thought maybe they did it for a quicker install (kind of a 1970s version of P&S plug tails) to install the devices quicker but they were stab-in outlets so that doesn't make sense... Wondering what made them do this?????
2) Their service... power comes overhead, hits a weatherhead, enters the house (SE cable) drapes across the attic goes about 25 feet into a brick wall to the meter box. Comes out of the meter box goes another 50 feet or so before it hits the panel. I do not believe it is fused which is scaring me with the loose SE cable draped across the attic. The weirdness here is, the meterbox is stamped PROPERTY OF GEORGiA POWER, and the loadcenter had a sticker stating that it was owned and maintained by Georgia Power. Never heard of the power company owning that far into your house. Georgia Power clearly states on their website and in their blue book that the watherhead and SE cable to the meter and to the panel are customer owned but I wonder if this was perhaps grandfathered in since its stamped property of Georgia Power and they could fix it ( the cable has some damage in the attic from being yanked after a tree came down on the drop from the street)
Appreciate it if some old timer or someone that has been around more then me has seen either of these instances before and has some logic behind them !