crazy electrical sh.....

[fenceman]

Ok , I think I found it.
Wife called said lights were flicking I ran back home.I could hear arcing inside the breaker box , meter area were I've seen the arcing in the dark. I took a fiberglass shovel handle and pushed slightly on the breaker box , a little arcing and everything went back to normal.
There is a 2 inch fitting that couples, joining the breaker box and meter. I could see it was loose and the breaker box is slightly loose where it is mounted to the pole. By wiggling the box with my stick I can get a occasional arcing.
I remember my wife backing into it 10 years ago. I remember the box be a little loose.
It appears as though the wind shaking that box over time has probably worn through the insulation on a wire were that coupler joins.
This is still me guessing but I think I found it.
The electrician is coming back out so we will see.

 

[4x4dually]

Sounds like you found it! Glad you didn't touch that box during an arc! You might have wet your pants and forgot your name for an hour. Glad the Co-oP guys checked it out good. :lol2:

 

[cowboy43]

How did you fix the problem , did you get the coop out again?

 

[fenceman]

How did you fix the problem , did you get the coop out again?

No it was below the meter. But above the breaker. I guess I could have pulled the meter and did it my self. I didn't tell comfortable messing with it. So i called the electrician back out. He credited me the charge from the first trip. Ended up costing me about 250.00. I was ok with that I guess.

 

[4x4dually]

COOP is responsible for everything down to the lugs under the breaker.....they should have covered it...but since honey backed into it, I guess it's only fair.

 

[fenceman]

COOP is responsible for everything down to the lugs under the breaker.....they should have covered it...but since honey backed into it, I guess it's only fair.

That's kinda how I felt about it.

 

[hillbilly beef man]

Sounds like you found it! Glad you didn't touch that box during an arc! You might have wet your pants and forgot your name for an hour. Glad the Co-oP guys checked it out good. :lol2:

A coworker did this at a house that he was working at. He got a two week stay at Vandy burn unit out of it.

 

[4x4dually]

A coworker did this at a house that he was working at. He got a two week stay at Vandy burn unit out of it.

Takes less than a second to go from fun to not fun. I don't mind working things hot within reason, but I tend to make up new curse words when I so much as get shocked by static sliding in-n-out of the truck. LOL

Now that we have a solution.....set back and enjoy some real music....


https://youtu.be/_w4YDQaf-K4

 

[TexasBred]

Don't worry my friend I ain't about to get fried. Although you might a gotta laugh out of me sitting on a plastic molassas tub sitting on a old mud flap wearing rubber boots and rubber gloves. :cboy:

Hillarious....what makes it so real for me is that is exactly what I would be doing. He// I do that when I change a light bulb. Scare of shyt I can't see but still knocks holes in the soles of your feet and shoes. :nod:

 

[4x4dually]

Y'all remind me of my neighbor. He got a new to him metal lathe two weeks ago. It wouldn't run. I figured out the control voltage transformer was fried due to a short. We fixed it and got it running....but not before I made a scream and jumped out of it. He about died in his boots. LOL

Looked something like this....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VZ4mz-khXIo

 

[TexasBred]

Now that would make a feller soil his laundry real quick. :lol2: :lol2:

 

[greybeard]

Don't worry my friend I ain't about to get fried. Although you might a gotta laugh out of me sitting on a plastic molassas tub sitting on a old mud flap wearing rubber boots and rubber gloves. :cboy:

Not everyone has that much common sense. I have to wonder how this all worked out.

 

[M-5]

Don't worry my friend I ain't about to get fried. Although you might a gotta laugh out of me sitting on a plastic molassas tub sitting on a old mud flap wearing rubber boots and rubber gloves. :cboy:

Not everyone has that much common sense. I have to wonder how this all worked out.

that's a urapeein photo GB

 

[D2Cat]

All staged internet entertainment.

 

[4x4dually]

All staged internet entertainment.

I beg to differ. Just remember what George Carlin said......think about how stupid the average person is, and then realize that half of them are stupider than that. :lol2: