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07-31-2009, 07:33 PM
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If the meter is blinking on and off maybe a lug on the line side of the meter is broken off or hanging by a thread. When our local POCO switched to digital meters they broke lots of old cans and had us replace them.
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07-31-2009, 07:34 PM
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Arcing. The meter is a new digital job, and the display would go on and off.
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So, it's on the line side of the meter.
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07-31-2009, 07:43 PM
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If the meter is blinking on and off maybe a lug on the line side of the meter is broken off or hanging by a thread. When our local POCO switched to digital meters they broke lots of old cans and had us replace them.
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So, it's on the line side of the meter.
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A-yep!
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07-31-2009, 08:09 PM
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So you change out the meter can and ask for a cold glass of lemonade for your troubles?
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07-31-2009, 08:18 PM
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So you change out the meter can and ask for a cold glass of lemonade for your troubles?
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Naaa. I just placed some cardboard against the front cover and crimped the jaws with an arc-joint pliers.
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07-31-2009, 08:31 PM
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So how does the lady kicking the ground box factor into it? Coincidence?
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07-31-2009, 08:32 PM
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Not very often I did see main cartage fuse holder is inverted from factory however I did get few service call with half power on Mobile homes which it one of few most common depending on the set up.
Half of my time I get POCO conductor actally pull out of lugs when the meter pedestal do " rise " from frost / thaw cycle.
This year I allready done 15 of them.
But really compound it is the bad meter spring to hold the meter lugs that is the other common item I get from time to time.
Yeah I got few with the fused service latheral not buryed deep at all I have one just last week it was only bury 6 inches Deep 
Merci,Marc
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07-31-2009, 08:55 PM
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So how does the lady kicking the ground box factor into it? Coincidence?
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That's my guess.
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07-31-2009, 09:05 PM
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Senor Frijolero
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so did you get the lemonade?
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07-31-2009, 09:09 PM
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so did you get the lemonade?
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Even better:He got a check!
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07-31-2009, 09:44 PM
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Quote:
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so did you get the lemonade?
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Even better:He got a check!
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Not really. I'm on a barter system with this guy. We settle up at the end of the year.
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07-31-2009, 10:00 PM
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Not really. I'm on a barter system with this guy. We settle up at the end of the year.
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Even worse: He got screwed!
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07-31-2009, 10:14 PM
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Even worse: He got screwed!
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No. I just keep a running tally, then at the end of the year, we settle up. It works out well for both of us.
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07-31-2009, 10:34 PM
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Quote:
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No. I just keep a running tally, then at the end of the year, we settle up. It works out well for both of us.
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I do that with my mechanic...
I think it works out better for him
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08-21-2009, 04:51 PM
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check the lugs and jaws in the meter can
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08-21-2009, 05:20 PM
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Quote:
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check the lugs and jaws in the meter can
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Yep, these things are exceptionally easy to solve once the OP gives the answer a few posts above. Good job 
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08-21-2009, 06:01 PM
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Quote:
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check the lugs and jaws in the meter can
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What a GD turd you are. Don't you bother reading the entire thread? You DA.
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08-23-2009, 12:50 AM
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Yep, these things are exceptionally easy to solve once the OP gives the answer a few posts above. Good job |
Had a guy in my technical shool the other year like that. Thought he knew everything but never knew the answer until someone else said it.
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08-23-2009, 11:55 AM
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Quote:
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No. I just keep a running tally, then at the end of the year, we settle up. It works out well for both of us.
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Ummm get paid in cash and does not show up on the books?  That would work out well.
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08-23-2009, 01:08 PM
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Ummm get paid in cash and does not show up on the books? That would work out well. |
Uh, no. That would be illegal. I do work for him, and he does some work for me. Instead of writing checks out back & forth all year, we just keep track of both and one of us pays the other at the end of the year.
Far less paperwork, bookkeeping, etc. And taxes still get paid on the full amounts owed as we give each other 1099Miscs every year.
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