Temp service

[rcdallas_]

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?

[reppy007]

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?

[Orgnizdlbr]

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.

[Lineman North Florida]

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.

[Rob]

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...

[bren guzzi]

Why not do what we do ? . If ya can't repair it. We give them a generator until we can fix it.

[ntxhand]

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?

Here in Lewisville, we run temp on the ground with bumpers and flexpipe out of the transformer or pedestal into the meter can. Contractors are called to bore a new service which can take a while sometimes leaving the service on the ground for up to a month.

[ntxhand]

[QUOTE=rcdallas_;146887]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?[/QUO
What do ya'll do?

[reppy007]

lbr is correct...Bren.....once upon a time there was a thing called burglar bars,they were mounted mostly on store windows and doors.They worked well.Now they are useless as the cameras are.Anywhere there is burglar bars theres a good chance as any that the business will be broken into.....the only bars that are halfway safe are the ones in jail or prisons,cause people are not breaking into them yet ....but if I watch the evening news enough Im sure that statement will make me a liar fast.

[rcdallas_]

Well it shows everyone does it different. Never have seen a service saver in person; know of them. Guess they come in 15kva/25kva. You install a driven ground rod for one, or what do you do to ground it.

Also, sounds like some come out and fix the next day or go so far as putting it in some type of enclosure/conduit.

Reppy nailed it with after a rain is when they start popping up and they come in batches.

Treat each one different here, mostly just triplex on the ground kind of tucked out of the way using reasonable best judgement.

I don't know if there is some type of NESC code or NFPA that had any bearing on any of it for the utilities as its a restoration effort/temporary that can dictate how you run it or how long it can be laid out.

Always made me wonder with how rules regulate handling an energized 240 service with rubber gloves yet the public doesn't.

Been seeing a lot lately that cooked in the ground so long that it'll end up being crystalized for 10/15 feet.