Thanks! I had given it a thought but I didn't know the back feed could be that high. Whenever I have come across it, it was on underground and on primary going out into the middle of a field with a...

Yesterday one of our younger linemen had problems on a small radial section on our rural area.
The initial call they found a blown fuse on the tap and a blown arrester on an irrigation bank...

Has anyone ever started this as a thread subject? It just amazes me what desk jockeys can come up with.
Super: The city needs your crew to help them put the fountain in the park lake.
Lineman: ...

Don't read into the thread name too deep! "Company" refers to who you work for. My phone isn't issued to me: I bought it and I pay the monthly bill, I'm not a 'Stupidvisor' and I use it wisely to...

No I didn't but hopefully I'll catch it in the future. Something I would've done 20 years ago.

If this has been brought up before, please forgive me. I just want to know what other companies policies are concerning these apparently 'can't live without devices' or what your personal thoughts...

Approximately 90+% of the residential services in our territory are burried. We've seen 200+ volts phase to ground at residences that had a bad neutral before. Variables like soil types, moisture,...

Substations and switches we use Best locks. Non vital areas we use keyed ringlocks. Peds and padmounts one shot ringlocks.

If it's a tree related trouble call, the trimming isn't going to be asthetically pleasing cause nobody's going to have to trim that tree for a very long time. Other than that, we inform the property...

My Mentor, an old lineman that lost both arms in an accident told me his fiverules, and I live by them every day.
1) There's only one stupid question, the one that's never asked.
2) If it isn't...

I carry one of the wifes old curling irons on the truck, compact and all I've got to do is plug it in and it is pure inductance.

Seen some ungodly high voltages on one of the hot legs if the neutral is bad. Since our system is a small rural community (2500 meters) we are the ones that will dig up and fix the customers drop...

I have seven subs that I'm in charge of, I also read all of our Industrial meters which are TOU. Anytime between 5:00 and 9:00 would be a fair guess. Depends on the customer. I have one customer...

Our system isn't that big so we name them by what their location is. 'Downtown', 'East' or the business name it is designated to feed. A few of us thought of re-naming them for our past Bro's but...

Thanks for the feedback! At our muni I've seen guys do connections in just about every manner and they change their minds as to how things should be done every time. Just tryin to get them all to...

We haven't had a problem with them, then again, we do the old style 'grasshoppers' or open style fuses with our extendos.

Hadn't heard this before a contractor working for me told me this. An H-tap, squeeze on, or your a typical Blackburn 159 isn't a copper to copper connector. I guess it might make sense since it is...

A DC capacitive charge could be possible. Grounding out the secondaries, we do. We have a large industrial customer. On that property we have 15 - 2500 kva and 9 other padmounts 150 kva to 1000...

At our safety meeting last week, our Safety Director informed us on the accident since the Omaha World Herald didn't say diddley. Apparently, he was in the process of wrecking out old lines. He...

What I know I learned from my Father and I do my best to follow in his foot steps, not only at work but with my family and with my Scouts.
1: Do unto others as you would want them to do unto you....

In my experience with the 7 LTCs we have, it should sound smooth and snap firmly when operated. That and every time I've helped work on our LTCs, we've had the transformer de-energized since the LTC...

Ok guys, don't be diss'in pin-on buckets. We've got one that does a great job. It sits in the corner of our cold storage building upside down and does a great job of keeping the dust off of the...

Elictriklady, your right, Schlumberger meters don't impress me either. I've sent alot back to get a report saying they failed either to moisture or an overheated lug. I'm sorry but 99% of our...

As being our inhouse meter nerd, I will guarantee you that an electric meter will pick up the current on each leg of an electric meter. The new electronic meters of today are even more sensitive...

Like topgroove said, we need to piece things together. It's hard to tell in the pic, but to me, this looks like a larger sub with maybe two or more transformers in it. If they went and tied two...