How does your company look at the practices for running temp services on the ground if you have a faulted urd service? Do you run the temp, do you locate and work now?
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How does your company look at the practices for running temp services on the ground if you have a faulted urd service? Do you run the temp, do you locate and work now?
Many places do it differently....I found that out long ago.They dont do it like we do....Ive ran thousands of temp bypasses...for a charge the company will run the customer one until they can get an electrican to run them new urd drops.Close to 99% of urd drops belong to the customer here .Other places offer other ways to give the customer 240 volts. Did that kind of answer your question?
If there are 2 good legs they'll have us set a service saver. If no 240 appliances they have us jumper the meter pan, otherwise find and repair. All services here are utility owned.
Like Labor said if we identify one bad leg we usually install a power temp ( dry transformer ) if more than that we will get out the pulsar secondary fault locator and find it and dig it up and fix it, if it's under asphalt we will try to run a service on top of the ground usually in pvc conduit till we can get back out in the daylight to get it fixed.
we've done both. If the entire service is out we will install a temp on the ground and send a crew out the next day to repair. If it's just one leg or a neutral we'll install an Auto...
Why not do what we do ? . If ya can't repair it. We give them a generator until we can fix it.
Too often Ive seen this happen,and this is one center only...say the cable contractors have been trenching in a subdivision....a month goes by and you have decent rain....urd drops go south due to being cut or the insulation is cut....In a weeks period of time that one center can install 80-100 bypasses,cause you still have the normal amount of drops going bad...You would spend more time delivering and recovering the generators,which would mean nothing gets fixed...now you need not forget that this is the States....once the thieves find out,they would take them anyway.Thats how bad its gotten with no end in sight.:(
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What do ya'll do?