broken j-box [RE-wrenches]

[William Miller]

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Ron:

This scenario raises a few questions:  Are these direct-bury rated 
cables?  Did they extend up the side of the pole?  Was this a grid tie system?

I wonder what voltage and amperage is fatal to your average family horse, 
or for that matter the family puppy?  I know we've heard about squirrels 
chewing cable.  It seems to me that we need to consider safety to and 
damage from animals as well, domestic and wild.  You are fortunate that the 
horse was not killed or injured.

William Miller

PS:  This reminds me of an older residence were we tied into a 
meter/main/combo for a grid tie.  There was an exposed hot wire below the 
panel, right above a ground wire.  A series of mice had stood on the ground 
wire and touched the hot wire attempting to wriggle into a hole in the 
wall.  There was a little pile of dead mice that did not survive this "trap."

WM

PPS:  Also reminds me of the story about how my grouchy old Grandfather 
kept the dogs out of the trash cans with an extension cord, with one end to 
the trash cans and the other on a metal railing.  Unfortunately he forgot 
to disconnect it one trash day.  There was an old WWI vet with a hook in 
place of his right hand that picked up the trash.  He was pretty upset when 
he got one of those hot wire nicks in his hook!

WM


At 02:50 PM 2/22/2008, you wrote:


>Hi Wrenches
>A clients horses got tangled up in an exposed cable and ripped the
>teck cable along with the combiner box right off the pole including
>all the mc cables running into a 10 panel array. The cable was left
>exposed two years ago after an installation and the customer was
>supposed to back fill around it but obviously didn't. I was able to
>repair/replace all the cables except on one panel where the j-box
>terminal was broken including the circuit board inside. I'm asking if
>anyone can suggest ways and means to repair this rather than replace
>the expensive 150/24 panel which is unavailable in N.A. right now
>anyway as far as I know. It would really be a shame to have to fit
>another panel into the array that would change the aesthetics as it's
>a really nice looking array.


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