Recent content by billrigsby

I don't foresee the squirrels being a problem, I don't have any trees close enough for them to gain access to the house and even if they were to climb up the side of the house, it's log, I have a metal roof I don't think they would get enough traction to access the roof and then the cables...

No trees, the view it will be in is only the neighbors house 1/2 an acre away. The general consensus is, without a full break, it would be almost impossible to find without making swiss cheese of the yard. Don't want that or a new trench! It is not through a lawn, but all the native grasses have...

This is what I plan on doing, the guy that does aerial has no way to locate the ground fault, the utility usually does that. My thought is to abandon in place.

That would be total overall in the air would be about 80 ft Monday I'm going to meet up with a guy that does installations for the local utility, I'm going to check with him on how they find faults. He is an aerial guy but probably would have some insight and possibly equipment available to...

Both are / would be about 125 ft

I thought about that, and as much as I would not like to tear my yard up again, the wires paid for I could just re bury it after I find the break put it in conduit, but the neighbor had a rodent go through buried conduit for his hot tub and I may go through all that for not, I can get the...

Okay that's what I thought you were going to say I guess I was trying to read between the lines. So what would be the AWG size required if I'm running #2 wire?

So does this mean that I can use the existing ground that is in ground and run three wires overhead for two hots and a neutral, and be acceptable?

Guess I should look before I leap or speak!, the ground is slightly smaller AWG, 4 vs 2.

No one but I do know that the buried wire I have all four wires were the same AWG, but not so for the wiring going to my hot tub.

Okay that's what I thought, so if I run #2 ariel from the house to the shop, which I already have someone who has about 130 ft ready for me to pick up Monday, it does not however, have a ground, it's merely service wire so what size ground wire would I need to add to that to be within code and...

Well this is all very interesting and very immersive. So since the neutral is a normal current carrying conductor and the ground is merely a fault carrying conductor, does the ground have to be the same AWG as the hots and the neutral? In the buried wire it was but if I remember correctly my...

Nothing in the shop is GFCI equipped, All of this is bringing up a question in my head, not to start another discussion or definitely not an argument but.... The power pole with the transformer on it has a copper plate on the base and a copper wire running up to the transformer which is the...

Okay let me rephrase that I have a ground wire that I could disconnect and use as a hot but I guess that is a No-No, it is currently connected to the ground system in the boxes and the ground rod. Sorry not so good of a picture. I'll just live with 120 volts until I can get it all figured out.

Just to update; Everything is tight, and was. No the local utility will do nothing once it's past their meter. Maybe 8 years ago when I was working alongside them at a sister company so to speak I may have gotten someone to do a little something on the side. At this point everyone I know is...