Service Connection

Don Martin · 09-15-2011, 05:59 PM

This was next door to my inspection and it caught my eye

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**Rick Cantrell** · 09-15-2011, 06:11 PM

This was next door to my inspection and it caught my eye

**Rick Cantrell** · 09-15-2011, 06:20 PM

Try again

This was next door to my inspection and it caught my eye

**Billy Stephens** · 09-15-2011, 06:34 PM

Originally Posted by Rick Cantrell

Try again

This was next door to my inspection and it caught my eye

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I was napping in my truck and ......

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Don,

Call Your locale Utility Company and have them Straighten that Service Drop Out.
* Most Likely illegal Hookup as evident by Wire Ties and Tape.
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Don Martin · 09-15-2011, 07:48 PM

The wire nuts and tape just didn't look right at a distance. At least he left the utility barrel connectors in place so he could wire nut copper to copper:-)

Here is another one I came across about 3 years ago.

**John Kogel** · 09-16-2011, 08:06 AM

Originally Posted by Don Martin

Here is another one I came across about 3 years ago.

Now that looks like a 3- wire feed to a garage or outbuilding. The correct clamp is missing.
The neutral should be insulated, but I'm not sure if it is a requirement?

Don Martin · 09-16-2011, 08:58 AM

PO put an un-permitted addition on the back of the house. He installed the new service on the back of the addition (20 feet closer to the utility pole) and since he had some extra wire fed the live service wires into the panel. No splices of the conductors at the weather head.

Around here all the utility splices are barrel connectors. Some of the older connections may be split bolts.

**bob smit** · 09-18-2011, 11:46 AM

Looks like a galvy plumbing roof flange... as opposed to a listed elect roof riser plate. I'm getting tired of writing this one up. ugg

**Robert Slight** · 09-19-2011, 04:38 AM

Originally Posted by John Kogel

Now that looks like a 3- wire feed to a garage or outbuilding. The correct clamp is missing.
The neutral should be insulated, but I'm not sure if it is a requirement?

Ha, ha!...I don't think that's a "Neutral". I think that's a "Roof Anchor". He spliced a neutral into a support cable! Well, at least he found someting to connect it to. "Huuuumm,,,,two hots soooo...THIS one must be the neutral". Bad news for squirrels around that house.

**Jim Port** · 09-19-2011, 06:10 AM

Originally Posted by Robert Slight

Ha, ha!...I don't think that's a "Neutral". I think that's a "Roof Anchor". He spliced a neutral into a support cable! Well, at least he found someting to connect it to. "Huuuumm,,,,two hots soooo...THIS one must be the neutral". Bad news for squirrels around that house.

Except for the unconventional connection to the insulator, this is no different than any other triplex aerial drop from the power company. In the neutral is a steel wire that supports the triplex.