Sierrasparky
Senior Member
- Location
- USA
- Occupation
- Electrician ,contractor
Monday I had a call where the POCO lost one leg of an underground service. Due to the logistics and private ownership of the right of way that the underground was run they could not fix it that day. Well the Poco told me they were going to just tie the two hots of the customer together until they could restore the missing hot leg. I told them I would need to turn of one breaker of each MWBC to avoid overloading the neutral . Well the POCO service man insisted that was wrong of me and that they do it all the time. He further states only the 220v stuff wont work and won't hurt them. I could have argued with this guy till I was blue in the face and was not going to get any where. I opened the customers panel and remove one wire from each MWBC to be safe as I had no indication as to when it would be fixed.