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Old 10-08-2009, 08:15 PM   #1
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Today's service call was to a restaurant with shunt trip breakers opening. While sitting in the parking lot waiting for the owner, I spy this........ uh.......err........... let's just call it 'work of art'. Circuit it to feed a sign out by the street.







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Nothing.................... if you're the one who did it.
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Whats with the conduit running out of the bottom of the stonco box to the concrete, It seems that the existing pipe to the sign crushed and shorted the circuit and overhead was...uh the cheapest way to re-feed the sign.
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So they let ya'll feed sign's at the streets from overhead? Around here it is a no no.
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