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#1 ·
My electric company is demanding that my 2 1/2 PVC be labeled as sch 80 but I can find any sch80 45's. Is there such a thing, they all say above ground.
 
#35 ·
My first pvc job I could not afford $200 pluse for a PVC Bender. So I made an inexpensive pvc bender. Old metal tool box, high temp silver engine paint and one 120v dry type water heater element. Never got around to put metal rollers in it. But it still works 20 years later. Aluminum foil and a torch works too.
 
#36 ·
I thought I heard the OP say entergy. If so they make you run the underground PVC to the pot, no wire, their specs(2.5 schedule 80). The come behind you and pull the wire (belongs to them) from the pot to the meter can(belongs to us). They dont like to pull more than two ninetys IMHO. And they all but require a pull line. Still say you should jaw jack em.
 
#38 ·
I did and I have a meeting Monday morning about the temp. Their spec sheet says sch80 and that is what I have it just not labeled. A twenty year linemen can tell me how much money I can make on a pole is stupid. If after twenty years he can't tell sch 80 from 40 maybe he needs a desk
 
#45 ·
The wire only has to be protected by sch 80 where it protrudes from grade, and only 18" deep. Why are you even using 45's?? make your stand pipe 18" longer than where it goes into the ground and be done with it, below 18" if your piping it all the way to the trans, you can do whatever. Smurf tube, gopher guard, drain tile, nothing... The code only requires it be protected by sch 80 if it protrudes from ground, and 18" below :thumbsup: Thats why you cant find a sch 80 LB/conn/90/conn/etc.
 
#46 ·
redseal said:
The wire only has to be protected by sch 80 where it protrudes from grade, and only 18" deep. Why are you even using 45's?? make your stand pipe 18" longer than where it goes into the ground and be done with it, below 18" if your piping it all the way to the trans, you can do whatever. Smurf tube, gopher guard, drain tile, nothing... The code only requires it be protected by sch 80 if it protrudes from ground, and 18" below :thumbsup: Thats why you cant find a sch 80 LB/conn/90/conn/etc.
Negative ghost rider. POCO requirement.
 
#47 · (Edited)
One POCO here allows sch 80 PVC risers for underground services and it is a stock item in all the supply houses. Often, the writing appears on the back side and isn't visable after installation.

I went a few rounds with an inspector about it. You can see clearly from looking into the TA that it's schedule 80 but she insisted it must be marked. I told her that it IS marked. Just find a mirror and look on the backside.

Negative ghost rider. POCO requirement.
Here we can even use that real thin walled stuff underground POCO service conductors. I forgot what it's called but it must be like schedule 20.


The "tailpipe trick" is an urban myth - the exhaust isn't hot enough to effect PVC
I remember doing a bunch of 2" back in the late 70's. The trick was to stuff a rag in the end of the conduit to trap the heat. Do newer vehicles run cooler with catalytic converters?


That is what I should have done just cut the 90s and make my own 45s
I do it all the time but it's actually against POCO specs. They don't think we are competent enough to cut a pre bent elbow and make the ends true and round for a solid connection. Sometimes you just need a special bend, especially when the trenching was by others.

I was showing a POCO guy how to heat the end with a torch to soften it up and push it into a coupling to reshape it. He told me never to show that to anyone.
 
#48 ·
Out of all these posts I still don't understand how the poco is the ahj. In the services Ive done under and over, once the inspector slaps that ok to turn on sticker on the meter base, all he's supposed to do is know his role and hook it up
 
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