Bisbee Gal Posted March 8, 2021 Report Share Posted March 8, 2021 Front gate buzzer rings during our dinner hour tonight, Sunday. We ignore it thinking it's kids or someone trying to sell us something. Buzzer rings again; go to kitchen to check our gate camera---there's a man peering down from our street wall! He's a CFE repairman. Says he's following up on our report of low voltage. Ahhh, but that was yesterday when we had the brownout, I say; everything is working now. Sí, he says but we are checking lines and yours is over 40 years old. He wants to replace it. Asks us to cut our breakers. We did. 40 minutes later he says we're good to go. Power's on....so far. Vamos a ver! 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RickS Posted March 8, 2021 Report Share Posted March 8, 2021 So what 'lines' do you think he could/would have replaced to make it 'good to go'? Transformer to meter? I'll bet not. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bisbee Gal Posted March 8, 2021 Author Report Share Posted March 8, 2021 By 'good to go' meaning it was ok for us to turn our breakers back on. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RickS Posted March 8, 2021 Report Share Posted March 8, 2021 OK... but do you know what he might have changed out in 40 minutes to make it so? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Go Solar Posted March 8, 2021 Report Share Posted March 8, 2021 16 minutes ago, RickS said: So what 'lines' do you think he could/would have replaced to make it 'good to go'? Transformer to meter? A crew can drop the overhead lines and place new ones in that amount of time, certainly easy to visually see the one ones to confirm it.....Bisbee, let us know! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bisbee Gal Posted March 8, 2021 Author Report Share Posted March 8, 2021 Two guys....one at the pole across street, one at our house. Ran a new line. Did they replace other stuff, I dunno. My main concern was that they not leave without our turning on breakers, confirm that power was back on! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RickS Posted March 8, 2021 Report Share Posted March 8, 2021 Well now that's being proactive, no? But 40 years makes it a 'slow proactive reactive event'! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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