Electrical meter inspections, here on purpose

[Yankee]

Does anyone who is responsible for a variety of inspection types do electrical meter inspections, and if so, do you look at the internal wiring of the meter box or only the exterior items? If you are an electrical inspector (res or comm), do you look into the meter box? Thnks

 

[fatboy]

Yes, yes and yes. Meter does not get set until we place our sticker on the enclosure. Anything after the service drop is under our approval.

 

[Francis Vineyard]

No power until approved. Contact the POCO and collaborate what they will allow and require; the POCO south of us want their meter box installed with a ground rod; north of us either way and in the city if bonding jumpers and GEC are installed the POCO will cut them out.

 

[Dennis]

If it is a service lateral (underground then that is the responsibility of the poco in our area. Some areas the contractor is responsible so you need to check. I say this because the poco will never run a wire that match what the NEC requires. They have their own engineered rules so it is not the inspectors responsibility.

 

[Yankee]

For those inspectors who "sticker" a meter for the electrical company to energize, do you open and look in the box at the internal wiring?

 

[rnapier]

I was just going to say yes but it won't let you post that short a message.

 

[ICE]

Certianly.

 

[ICE]

Somebody want to move this to the electrical forum?

 

[codeworks]

i do them, i open the meter can, see that it's properly arrached to the building, tug on the wires to see that the connecftions ate tight, look at wire size ot "mike them" with a nice burndy wire mike ( heh, heh), i check to see that the neutral is identified, i look for a grounding bushing and egc on the upper end of the offfset nipple, if that's all ok, i go to the panel below ( most every thing here is outside 3r)

 

[codeworks]

what happened to the edit button, my spelling is poor today

 

[Yankee]

thanks , actually I intended to post in this section because I am more interested in those who are not specifically electrical inspectors, but perhaps general residential inspectors that have this type of inspection as part of their duties.