Call out elderly couple loss of power

[nickblake]

intresting one this Call out ,customer lost power got there the only house in darkness , DB cover off dead as a doo doo not sign of life at the meterso switched off every thing put screw driver down supply back on , mmm me thinks power cut , switched power on instantly power went off again ,mmm even odder me thinks ,switched off again power comes back on , Voltage check 215 volts ,Ze 108 ohms just a little high for a TNCS i thought Yes befor you ask it was joking i know it should be less than 0.35 ,then elder chap from next door next door pops round have you lost your power mines just gone off , oh dear big problem here , then the street light goes off and flickers back on 2 elderly couples with no power , no gas , so first job call DNO , arrived in half an hour couldnt do anything till following day . so me being me popped home 2 flasks of boiling water and a couple of led lights ,and left them to it , popped in this morning with another couple of flasks of hot water , then called in again this evening to find half the road dug up cable melted in three places but the main fault was under a guys concrete drive , so DNO carried out some temp repairs to get the customers power back on all happy

 

[DurhamSparky]

Well done Bud gone well out your way to help them! i would suggest customers for life now!!!! and well done DNO for responding fast and at least getting some thing back on!

i has similar one last year 1 phase has become loose at joint box under street and DNO were getting 36-90V from the concrete and near 100v on the soil!! SWEET

1830 NEDL Attended and confirmed there problem
1945 heavy diggers trundled in with ALL The nighshift and oncall staff plus area manager!!
2230 find fault apparently sparking like a goodun and isolate the street at Sub
0130 reconnect new joint
0200 restore power

neighbours were happy apart from bit of noise up until 0130

they filled the hole the next day and tarmacked as well

speaking to them next day they only did that as they were not been liable for people been electrocuted from the path!

 

[nickblake]

like it Can beat a few pretty sparks , i know we pull the DNO appart some time but there are time when they have to be given credit and ill give the guys credit on this one and made sure the power was on as quickly as they could

 

[mogga]

a few years ago Street lighting call out " one of OUR boxes has exploded!" said the guy at Council call center he gave exact location and confirmed on his map the box number I went hell for leather to the job even got a Police escort when I went through red light Fire brigade there with 2 hoses out smoke belching from two cable tv boxes I Phoned Scottish Poser ( 40 mins first guy) in mean time fire brigabe cordoned off area called cabletell and I confirmed all cable boxes in area were live ( Drunk "Im a lift engineer!!" got lifted for coming through cordon ) SP Engineer agreed with my diagnosis Whiles cableing for TV the 5thcore( Ug cables have 5 cores l1 l2 l3 N and signal used for switching old st lighting) he called his gaffer as did the rest of us Power turned off at S.P. Transformer Sp diggers dug and found fault 6inches from where Myself and Willie had narrowed down likeley spots Police were well Impressed Fault located to 5th core nicked and burning through cable telly coaxes making them live Then came the best bit SP Senior enginer holding 100 pr fiber optic main feed for the area says to his underling CUT THIS out the way Cable tels gaffer nearly had a heart attack as the hack saw went in 100mtrs had to be pulled in next day Best laff was the complaints to SP were not "My powers off" but " whens my telly going to be back on ?? Cable tel says its your fault" LLF The amount of UG Faults that lot "created" for SP Stlighting and Gas was brill some amount of overtime

 

[Knobhead]

You may like this one. I was shown this particular section of cable at the then EMEB training collage. Remember the old concentric wave form cable? Usual scenario new cable laid to a row of new builds, every things fine until a water leak. Enter the water board JCB, dig hole and skin cable. Leak repaired (sort of) so hole filled in and nothing said to EMEB. Pipe starts leaking again near to skinned cable. A few years down the line the last of the neutral has rotted / burnt away.
The EMEB not only had to repair the cable but replace nearly every VCR, HiFi and TV in the street.