Point of attachment with uninsulated through bolt

[iwire]

I have never seen nor heard of an insulated POA. When would it be needed?

It just depends on the power company standards.

Some require an insulated point of attachment.

We can go on all day about if its need for electrical safety or not but to me it never does any harm and if the power company requires it then that it.

My own home like many around here uses bare galvanized hook.

 

[benaround]

Why not? The metal meter pan is screwed into the siding anyway so why should an uninsulated hook matter?

It seems like a fairly common event for a loose neutral or an open neutral

trouble call. My thoughts were 1. service neutral (bare) tied to metal POA

that is in good contact with the alum. siding, 2. for whatever reason the

neutral opens at the drip loop or meter enclosure, 3. what paths could the

neutral/siding take to complete circuits---copper hose bibs, any metal box

with an EGC that is in contact with the siding ie. light fixtures or gfci recpts.

and under the right conditions a person. Is this not a possibillity ?

 

[massfd]

Here in LIPA land it used to be an insulated eye bolt, now it's a steel eye bolt and a seperate clevis insulator. They even install the clevis insulator at the pole end. Looks like they want to keep any neutral current from flowing on the pole, I would think I would follow their example and keep the structure attatchment insulated also.

I would not want an open neutral anywhere in the utitlty's system from finding ground thru my siding, also would rather have an eye bolt pull out than have a steel plate pull a chunk of the building off.

 

[charlie]

Hmmmm

Hmmmm

. . . I would not want an open neutral anywhere in the utitlty's system from finding ground thru my siding, . .

You might want to install an electrically insulated and weatherproof board under the conduit and meter fitting to insulate the service entrance equipment (bonded to the electric utility's neutral) from your siding. :roll:

 

[infinity]

You might want to install an electrically insulated and weatherproof board under the conduit and meter fitting to insulate the service entrance equipment (bonded to the electric utility's neutral) from your siding. :roll:

That was my point in a previous post. The meter enclosure is bonded to the neutral within the meter pan which is screwed to the aluminum siding. So an insulated attachment point is not doing much to insulate the siding from the neutral since they're connected at the meter enclosure.