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<blockquote data-quote="greybeard" data-source="post: 1325663" data-attributes="member: 18945"><p>Well, I wasn't thininking about stealing power, but I guess that could have been a possibility some time in the past history of the house. </p><p>In the old house I grew up in, there was one 4 socket fuse box (screw in fuses) for the whole house. Pretty common. </p><p>Also common, if additional circuits were needed, to just install an extra set of lugs on the metered side of the meter box, run power off those lugs to a junction box of some kind and subcircuits from that box. Those circuits may or may not have any overload protection. When my father activated a big unused portion of the building for his auto shop, the "electrician" just pulled the meter and tied in on the 'outlet side' and ran 100A power back to the shop and split off in a big spaghetti looking junction box. Only thing that controled the shop circuits was a big knife type disconnect--IN the shop. One of the bedrooms of the house had a problem with it's wall outlets, (no voltage) and dad just took the wires off the outlets, taped them up, then ran power to those outlets from the other side of the wall, which was also the shop wall. That meant no protection for that bedroom outlet circuit, and no way to turn power off to that bedroom except the disconnect in the shop. You could pull all 4 fuses for the house and tht bedroom circuit would still be 'hot'.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="greybeard, post: 1325663, member: 18945"] Well, I wasn't thininking about stealing power, but I guess that could have been a possibility some time in the past history of the house. In the old house I grew up in, there was one 4 socket fuse box (screw in fuses) for the whole house. Pretty common. Also common, if additional circuits were needed, to just install an extra set of lugs on the metered side of the meter box, run power off those lugs to a junction box of some kind and subcircuits from that box. Those circuits may or may not have any overload protection. When my father activated a big unused portion of the building for his auto shop, the "electrician" just pulled the meter and tied in on the 'outlet side' and ran 100A power back to the shop and split off in a big spaghetti looking junction box. Only thing that controled the shop circuits was a big knife type disconnect--IN the shop. One of the bedrooms of the house had a problem with it's wall outlets, (no voltage) and dad just took the wires off the outlets, taped them up, then ran power to those outlets from the other side of the wall, which was also the shop wall. That meant no protection for that bedroom outlet circuit, and no way to turn power off to that bedroom except the disconnect in the shop. You could pull all 4 fuses for the house and tht bedroom circuit would still be 'hot'. [/QUOTE]
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