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That’s not good…

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  • LuFins DadL Offline
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    LuFins Dad
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    #3

    Power surge, blew the main building disconnect so hard that the panel door was blown upward. Emergency electrician is due to arrive at 9 PM

    The Brad

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    • George KG Offline
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      George K
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      #4

      Impressive.

      And scary.

      "Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08

      The saying, "Lite is just one damn thing after another," is a gross understatement. The damn things overlap.

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      • LuFins DadL Offline
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        LuFins Dad
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        #5

        Weird thing is the panel looks fine. No scorch marks, the door isn’t bent, just blown open

        The Brad

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        • JollyJ Offline
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          Jolly
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          #6

          Live dangerously.

          Get a 2x4 and flip that 200 amp breaker back on.

          “Cry havoc and let slip the DOGE of war!”

          Those who cheered as J-6 American prisoners were locked in solitary for 18 months without trial, now suddenly fight tooth and nail for foreign terrorists’ "due process". — Buck Sexton

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          • LuFins DadL LuFins Dad

            Weird thing is the panel looks fine. No scorch marks, the door isn’t bent, just blown open

            RenaudaR Offline
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            Renauda
            wrote on last edited by Renauda
            #7

            @LuFins-Dad

            I’d thought there would have had to be one hell of an arc to do that to the door that would leave plenty of scorching on the inside.

            Elbows up!

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            • CopperC Offline
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              Copper
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              #8

              Look for red wires connected to black wires.

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              • JollyJ Jolly

                Live dangerously.

                Get a 2x4 and flip that 200 amp breaker back on.

                RenaudaR Offline
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                Renauda
                wrote on last edited by Renauda
                #9

                @Jolly said in That’s not good…:

                Live dangerously.

                Get a 2x4 and flip that 200 amp breaker back on.

                And wear heavy rubber boots - Wellington’s.

                Actually, let the electrician take care if it all.

                Elbows up!

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                • RenaudaR Renauda

                  @Jolly said in That’s not good…:

                  Live dangerously.

                  Get a 2x4 and flip that 200 amp breaker back on.

                  And wear heavy rubber boots - Wellington’s.

                  Actually, let the electrician take care if it all.

                  JollyJ Offline
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                  Jolly
                  wrote on last edited by
                  #10

                  @Renauda said in That’s not good…:

                  @Jolly said in That’s not good…:

                  Live dangerously.

                  Get a 2x4 and flip that 200 amp breaker back on.

                  And wear heavy rubber boots - Wellington’s.

                  Actually, let the electrician take care if it all.

                  Had a good friend who was a master electrician. Wired control panels in nuclear plants electrician.

                  He was once in a flooding situation where he had to flip a 300 amp breaker. Burned one eyebrow off...

                  “Cry havoc and let slip the DOGE of war!”

                  Those who cheered as J-6 American prisoners were locked in solitary for 18 months without trial, now suddenly fight tooth and nail for foreign terrorists’ "due process". — Buck Sexton

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                  • JollyJ Jolly

                    @Renauda said in That’s not good…:

                    @Jolly said in That’s not good…:

                    Live dangerously.

                    Get a 2x4 and flip that 200 amp breaker back on.

                    And wear heavy rubber boots - Wellington’s.

                    Actually, let the electrician take care if it all.

                    Had a good friend who was a master electrician. Wired control panels in nuclear plants electrician.

                    He was once in a flooding situation where he had to flip a 300 amp breaker. Burned one eyebrow off...

                    RenaudaR Offline
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                    Renauda
                    wrote on last edited by Renauda
                    #11

                    @Jolly

                    In university I worked a few summers for the rural power utility taking trouble calls during weekends and evenings when thunder storms were rolling about. Our area was all central and northern Alberta. The switching centre in which I worked was a 800 square foot shack adjacent to the main substation for the area. Seems to me there were at least six or seven 250 KVA feeds going into the station. Once one of operators invited me out into the sub to observe him open a hot 250 KVA air breaker by hand wheel in the station. He told me not to look up at under any circumstances at the air break while he was opening it as the arc would result in immediate flash burns to my eyes. To this day over fifty years later, I can still hear the ear splitting roar and crackle of the lightening bolt above our heads and the lingering smell ozone that hung in the air for five or more minutes after.

                    Elbows up!

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                    • LuFins DadL Offline
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                      LuFins Dad
                      wrote on last edited by
                      #12

                      Love coming to work at 5:30 AM to meet the electrician. This is going to be a long day…

                      The Brad

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                      • LuFins DadL LuFins Dad

                        Love coming to work at 5:30 AM to meet the electrician. This is going to be a long day…

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                        taiwan_girl
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                        #13

                        @LuFins-Dad Hope things are solved quickly for you!!!

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