Ravenvalor
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Anyone ever troubleshoot an electrical system in a home or commercial building with an electric fence energizer?
Electric Fence Energizer
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Are you talking about using the charger as a tool?
My boss hooks up a wire to his trucks ignition coil and clips the other end to a lead in old electric ceiling heat. Walks around with a stethoscope and listens for the tick, tick, tick, before he makes a surgical insision.
My boss hooks up a wire to his trucks ignition coil and clips the other end to a lead in old electric ceiling heat. Walks around with a stethoscope and listens for the tick, tick, tick, before he makes a surgical insision.
Ravenvalor
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Yes I was talking about using the charger to find loose connections or maybe shorts.
Can you please elaborate on the ignition method?
Can you please elaborate on the ignition method?
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That is ingenious!
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I have never done it myself, but I know it works. He pulls a spark plug wire off, jams an adaptor he made in the socket and hooks it up to the conductors feeding the ceiling heat.
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It is and he is. He's done a lot of other cool stuff.....made his own ceiling fan boxes before they were required because he had a ceiling fan crash down.....made his own PVC expansion joints when they became code required but none of the local supply houses were stocking them yet....made his own ground rod driver attachment for a Hilti.......underground boring tools, hot box for PVC bending, extra long hole saws,....there is more that I can't think of right now.
Ravenvalor
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Our POCO uses a pulsing device that sends a large amount of voltage into the meterbase and the operator looks for and listens for arcing. He actually showed me the termination for the grounding electrode conductor arcing under the test.
He left the Service Disconnect on for the house because people were home and using the power so he wasn't concerned about surges entering the home probably because the path of least resistance was not inside the house.
Seeing the POCO's device has made me want to devise something similar however the restrictions would obviously be that it can't fry peoples printed circuit boards. I am wondering if there's something on the market that will simulate a pulse instead of actually creating one. I have a device that simulates a load on a receptacle and measures the voltage drop.
He left the Service Disconnect on for the house because people were home and using the power so he wasn't concerned about surges entering the home probably because the path of least resistance was not inside the house.
Seeing the POCO's device has made me want to devise something similar however the restrictions would obviously be that it can't fry peoples printed circuit boards. I am wondering if there's something on the market that will simulate a pulse instead of actually creating one. I have a device that simulates a load on a receptacle and measures the voltage drop.
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What exactly did he hook this testing device up to?
Ravenvalor
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Not sure. The device had a huge magnet built into it so he just stuck it to the side of the meterbase and hooked up two leads to the meterbase. I believe he moved the leads to different terminations on the meterbase.
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Well he can do whatever he wants across anything that is connected on both sides to the earth.
On our side of things a merger can sniff out some hard to find problems but you do have to disconnect any loads that are vunrable to high voltages.
On our side of things a merger can sniff out some hard to find problems but you do have to disconnect any loads that are vunrable to high voltages.
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