Coordinating With An Electrical Utility

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• JE

  @jeanclaude2794 · 4 years ago

  love these videos! i'm 1st year apprentice and my company has me on services installing meters and breaker panels in new residential.

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• MI

  @mitchellbarnow1709 · 4 years ago

  Thank you so much Joel! I really learned something and that’s the point of me watching these videos.

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• JO

  @JohnThomas-lq5qp · 4 years ago

  The local electrical utility in my big city is hit & miss. Have a blue book ( now 109% on the net ) . Some of their detailers are ppl superb but a few should be working at a fast food chain. Was doing a 800 amp service in a building for a friend that was renting a building  Asked the detailer what was the available short circuit current in a hurry to decide what would be cheaper a fused 800 amp safety switch or a 800 amp circuit breaker. Finally after a week called them back and they had no ideal of what I was talking about. Told them to give me the impedance of the transformers up on the pole so I could come up with the # but still had no clue. Finally I got to talk to a qualified detailer and got my answer 2 minutes later.

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• KR

  @kramit269 · 3 years ago

  That’s why you need Slip couplings on risers to bottom of meter pan .

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• JL

  @JLkbd · 3 years ago

  This is Officialy my new favorite youtube channel... I am soon to get my contractors license and these videos have helped me alot on tips and tricks

• CH

  @chill-633 · 2 years ago

  Here (WV) the utility company requires slip couplings on the risers to the bottom of the meter box to accommodate frost heave.

• KE

  @Kevin-wj4ed · 2 years ago

  There the boss and they know it¡!!!!!!!!!!!

• PE

  @persona250 · 2 years ago

  Serious current for a plastic pipe .

• LE

  @leonardhenderson6723 · 1 year ago

  There is a separate  code for the power co

• FI

  @FieldsandMeadowsSupplyCo · 3 years ago

  Hi, your presentation is really good. Thank you. I am doing the "customer responsibility" part of connecting to the service lateral and installation of the meter and service disconnect device. The company gives out a sheet with comprehensive instruction, and so does the county. I am pleased. I get to trench the ground hole (4 feet long away from the transformer by 3 feet deep by 2 feet wide). All of a sudden, I came to the realization I am not supposed to come near the service lateral coming out of the transformer. My question: How in the world am I going to make sure I don't hit it? Is it 1 foot out of the transformer? 2 feet? what direction is it pointing in? Should I trench all the way and stop 2 feet away from the transformer, then wait for the power company crew to dig their way to the transformer to connect their service lateral part to my cable? Or is their cable still folded and tucked inside their transformer and not in the ground already? What is best practice here?

• RI

  @richsanches4984 · 2 years ago

  Interesting. We have to use expansion joints in BC Canada for temp changes, these would have prevented this situation.

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• 19

  @1970Mrscott · 2 years ago

  Please link to the other videos in the description and title the videos part 1 or 4, part 2 of 4, etc