You're messing with something you shouldn't be touching. I built
and remodeled for 45 years and did my own wiring on all the
residential encluding running a 400A service into a couple houses.
Still, I wouldn't touch this. It needs to be pig tailed and
*dead* when you mess with something like this. (They say when a
person gets fried like that it really stinks. Don't prove it.)




"John E." wrote in message
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The weatherhead was yanked off the service entrance
conduit extending from the roof by a fallen branch. The
ground / neutral conductor of the power drop broke a few
strands, and the strain relief / insulator for the ground
/ neutral cable is broken.

I'm going to do this myself. I called the power company
to ask about how the disconnect/reconnect happens during
the repair. The guy tried to answer my question but
ultimately didn't.

I want to replace the broken items and the conductors
that go to the load panel. I want to keep the load panel,
old as it is, and all other salvageable components
because in the spring the house is going to be bulldozed
to make way for a new home, and it's not worth it to
replace it.

The power guy said that power isn't turned off, per se,
but that it is disconnected from the old conductors and
connected to the new ones by the power company crew. I
said that I didn't understand how this could be the case
if I want to replace the conductors in the conduit, but
we couldn't seem to get to where he understood what I was
asking.

How is power disconnect / reconnect handled if one is
replacing the conductors, and not installing a new load
panel / conduit, etc. From my phone call experience, it
seems like the power company hardly comes across a repair
question such as this.

This is in Maryland.

Thanks,
--
John English