Two lawyers..

[ptonsparky]

Reason I was late getting home today. One owner snagged the guy wire. The POCO service tech used his pickup as the anchor until the line crew showed up with a new pole.

First time I’ve seen anywhere close to 200 amp on a residential service. We were several minutes past powering up when my help checked amps at 174. All electric home and it had been off all morning. We have some nice bright short pieces of XHHW wrapped around the pole until Monday. No spare terminal boxes in my shop.

 

[romex jockey]

did it go boom?

~RJ~

 

[ptonsparky]

Nothing went boom. There was a 250 amp breaker in the meter can. The terminals and parts pulled out of the breaker as the pole tilted. I didn’t see any arc marks.