5 Days to Reconnect a Service?

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PG&E is wonderful up in the mountains of Plumas County. I've never had a problem getting something done, and everybody from the planner (there's only one) to the troublemen are more than helpful. I've heard the horror stories in the Bay area, things like them requiring you to chock the curbs so they can get the truck on the property, etc. Sometimes it is nice to live in the mountains!

mike
 
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I'm still confused about this "romex connector" that will handle 4/0 conductors. I was referring to a butt-splice connector to join the new 4/0 to the old #2 (or whatever). When I think of romex connector, I am thinking of something that goes in a knockout - two-screw, plastic snap-in, etc.

Does someone have a picture?

Thanks,

Mark
 
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"romex connector" that will handle 4/0
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at a recent meeting of State Inspectors, one of the guys brought in a well taped splice or tap (i forget which) where the contractor had used romex connectors in lieu of split bolts. I believe the shape of the taped joint gave it away.
so apparently if you have enough ingenuity and guts, you use a cheap romex connector to clamp the conductors together.
 
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Now I'm getting the picture. Never would have thought of that.

Mark
 
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I can't find a picture, but Tomic connectors are the old-fashioned two-piece cable clamps with two screws, seen during service changes. They have no locknut, and fall out of the knockout until they're tightened.

They're made of two L-shaped pieces of flat metal, bent and the screw holes threaded, similar to the cable clamp that comes on range and dryer power cords (except the new ones are often one piece.)
 
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Add the cost of proper connections into the price and be done with it.

By the time the power company gets there, they might be there to make repairs to burned off wires caused by loose tomic connections. And one could be the neutral.
 
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This was SSF Paul. My last job there was some years ago and these people are not the same PG&E I dealt with then.

Larry, rural services are fun, I guess 'cause I've only done one. Expensive too. $5000 bucks to run some wire? 4 to 6 weeks to take a look. Sounds like PG&E, you probably have Edison though. You're lucky they haven't mentioned engineering costs. :D

I think I'd buy a trencher and run it myslf in the ground if it's all on your property. You should be able to hire a guy to trench too for a lot less than that. If it's an option.

Somebody told me yesterday that if a tenent or resident is pregnant they have to connect the same day. Does anyone know if that's true? There is a pregnant tenent there. Not that it matters anymore.
 
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