On 8/25/21 21:09, Warren Kumari wrote:
... and my "funny" story.
We used to live in San Jose. There was a large heat-wave, and much of
SJC lost power because of A/C load, etc. Anyway, my wife and I go and
camp in one of the office conference rooms for a few days because the
office still has power and A/C.
Eventually PG&E claims that power is back on our street, so we drive
back to San Jose and... no power. I flag down a passing PG&E truck and
ask if they know when it will *really* be back. Lineman says that it
is. I say it isn't. He says it is. I say it isn't.
He gets annoyed, opens up the pedestal box and sticks a meter in it,
and agrees that I have no power. He then sticks the meter across the
800A fuse, and discovers that the fuse blew.
"Ah. I can fix that fer you..." he says, and goes to the back of the
truck... "Doh. I'm out of 800A fuses. Um.... er.... well, here is a
6,000A fuse, that'll do..."
I briefly question the logic of this (presumably the lines in the
ground are sized somewhere around 800-1,200A), but he says that
this'll do, and he'll come back in the next few days to replace it. I
lived there for another 8 or so months, and it was never replaced,
but, well,... not my wires, so, um ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ I guess...
You annoyed him enough to give you a larger fuse, and be done with you :-).
Obviously, a safety hazard all on its own.
Mark.
