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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 8/25/21 21:09, Warren Kumari wrote:<br>
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<div>... and my "funny" story.</div>
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<div>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. </div>
<div>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. </div>
<div>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. </div>
<div>"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..."</div>
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<div>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...</div>
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You annoyed him enough to give you a larger fuse, and be done with
you :-).<br>
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Obviously, a safety hazard all on its own.<br>
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Mark.<br>
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