[Elephante]

 

[Shockdoc]

Took the cableline as a return path back

 

[Elephante]

Took the cableline as a return path back

yea the splitter and tie in point were glowing...

 

[brian john]

That is some ugly siding! Is that your house? If so I did not mean anything with my siding comment.

 

[Elephante]

That is some ugly siding! Is that your house? If so I did not mean anything with my siding comment.

No...I have cheap vinyl siding. This is customers house...

 

[ampman]

Never seen a meter base like that

 

[Elephante]

Never seen a meter base like that

The house was built in 1938. Don't know if that was the existing meterbase or they had a 60 amp before...

 

[Rollie73]

HOLY 5H!T.............it flipped the whole house on to its side. I had to rotate my laptop to see the pics.:jester::laughing:

 

[someonespecial]

Did they call the cable company first and ask why their cable drop was on fire?

 

[Elephante]

Did they call the cable company first and ask why their cable drop was on fire?

lol wouldn't surprise me...

 

[brian john]

Swear to gawd I thought it was vertical siding

 

[Elephante]

Swear to gawd I thought it was vertical siding http://s159.photobucket.com/user/brianjohn2580/media/1_zps539b4b0f.jpg.html http://s159.photobucket.com/user/brianjohn2580/media/2_zps67ee2fa9.jpg.html

thanks for cropping it...lol

 

[Meadow]

One more reason why the cmp should require phase neutral over voltage logic in the main breaker. Or go the sensible way and have everything straight 240.

 

[Shockdoc]

No WM ground? That usually takes the current back. I have only seen burnt cable lines twice when WMs have rotted out or been disconnected.

 

[Meadow]

No WM ground? That usually takes the current back. I have only seen burnt cable lines twice when WMs have rotted out or been disconnected.

Could be well water or plastic coming in.

 

[RandyM]

Start installing a 240 to 120/240 transformer and make your own neutral!

 

[Meadow]

Start installing a 240 to 120/240 transformer and make your own neutral!

Ive actually done that before:laughing:

 

[BuzzKill]

No WM ground? That usually takes the current back. I have only seen burnt cable lines twice when WMs have rotted out or been disconnected.

Just had a SC to a house with no N connection at the street at all, completely broken. Burnt up their router inside, melted the sealtite covering their cable drop where it was terminated male to female'd and burnt the insulation off their phone ground. Power still worked pretty well when I got there. Some blinking lights, nothing 240 working but they were sitting there watching TV. Good water bond shared with the neighbors kept it going.

 

[Joefixit2]

Some years back I got a call that TVs were burning out, lights getting brighter, and the fridge was barely running. Someone hit the pedestal in the alley and the neutral pulled out of the lug. Funny part is the homeowner burned up his big TV in the living room so he went and got another one from the bedroom and burned it up, then he got a third one and burned it up! Musta been a good game on! He also had current on the cable line but it didn't burn like that one.

 

[Meadow]

Just had a SC to a house with no N connection at the street at all, completely broken. Burnt up their router inside, melted the sealtite covering their cable drop where it was terminated male to female'd and burnt the insulation off their phone ground. Power still worked pretty well when I got there. Some blinking lights, nothing 240 working but they were sitting there watching TV. Good water bond shared with the neighbors kept it going.

240 not working? Sounds like an open neutral and an open phase.