On Mar 8, 9:52*pm, "John Grabowski" wrote:
"RBM" wrote in message

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"The Daring Dufas" wrote in message
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Toasty wrote:
Hello,

Since about December 2008, there has been intermittent flickering of
lights and very brief electrical outages in this house. *It occurs on
several circuits at the same time. *I had an electrician tighten up
connections in the circuit breaker box, but he did not remove any and
reinstall any breakers. *A corroded and detached ground wire from the
breaker box to a water pipe was discovered and has since been
repaired. *There was no sign of "arcing" in the box. *All connections
were tight.

Could the problem be in a location in the box that is inaccessible
unless the breakers are removed?

I will have Con Edison (utility company) send a technician to inspect
their electric meter.

There have been problems reported by the utility company that I was
told involves the melting salt used on the roads mixing with snow and
leaking into the manholes, causing corrosion of electrical lines.
Such disruption of the lines should affect many houses on the grid,
not just my own, should it not?

My biggest concern is that the problem will occur during heavy usage
of electricity during this summer when the A/C units are running.

Around here, your electrician can pull the meter
and check the connections there as long as he/she/it
calls the power company to let them know the seal
was cut. With the meter out, everything can be safely
checked out. Making sure they notify the power company
keeps you out of trouble.

TDD

It used to be that way in ConEd territory around 30 years ago, but I think
the honor system didn't work out to well. These days a licensed
electrician has to file papers to have them come out and remove the case
hardened hydraulic lock from the customer's meter box

*Quite a contrast to JCP&L who doesn't want to come out and do anything
trivial like that. *Fortunately they only have the little wire seals that
are easily cut. *If you want them to do something like tie in a service or
pull a meter there is a service charge and a permit would need to be taken
out. *I think it is $218.00 minimum.

We have a small, municipally-owned electric company.

Last time I had an electrician checking something out, he called the
BPU and they were there in about 5 minutes. They took off the wire
seal and chatted with the electrician for a while. Then they put a
new seal on top of the meter-box and told the electrician to "seal it
up" when he was done.

It's a small town. Of course he did it because everyone knows
everyone else. If he didn't do it, and do it properly, that would be
the end of him doing electrical work around town.