Temporary underground power 

Listened to this video on the way home from my CDL test. (Passed💪🏻🙏)

The connectors appear to be "TE Raychem GelPort Connectors". Bingle will find more information. A lot of info comes from New Zealand; clever folks there. Some sheets give wire size in mm2, but I did find MCM rating (500) at Wesco.

I appreciate you cleaning up. I do pole inspection and surveying and the amount of leftover bits I see after there's been work on the power, cable, or phone is just nuts. I've picked up so many random bits of wire or plastic sheath or other stuff that's just been left laying there.

Very cool like those connectors time will tell on them

Please pardon my ignorance, but is the water being that high concerning? Working on an ice block in the winter could be a challenge I would imagine. Things are water tight until they aren't😊. Thanks for another interesting video. Stay safe, and God bless.

Nice overview of the process mate, is there a blank that goes over the meter connection there at the end or do you install an actual meter and seal it? Meters in Australia are hard wired in and are installed by the power authority, or their contractor and sealed by them. Then they are read by a meter reading contractor. All adds to the monthly power bill haha.

my mom always wanted me to be a lineman for some reason but i know 2-3 people go to school for it and hated it how do i know if its for me without wasting time and money on schooling?

Ugh, picking up your leftover bits of insulation and trash. You'd never make it as a commercial electrician!

I'm not a lineman but I still watch your videos. I've learned to really appreciate those who do the work you do.

Those GelPack connectors don't have a specific torque, or are they self-limiting? And there must be a ground rod on the temporary power base since you didn't wire the ground to anything?

The name of the company that makes the GelPort is RayChem. It's pronounced "ray-kem" as in chemistry. They are/were a California company that invented heat shrink tubing, and it works by blasting the rubber with radiation, hence the name RayChem (radiation chemistry). My mom worked there for years as a production manager and would always bring home fun stuff they were making. Tyco bought them a while ago, so now they are called TE RayChem.

Aluminum = tweakers kryptonite😂

Solid video, Aaron! You’re by the Book because you’re Smart. Thanks! 👍🙏

In theory all of that stuff will be OK underwater. Likely what save you is that almost all of the time, they will not be under water because a tiny/pinhole leak will result in the destruction of the hot wire(s). I take it that eventually the neighborhood will be shifted to pad mounted transformers where everything is dry.

"Water will not get in." "We're gonna test that!"

Why is new work being installed aerial?

11:00 That's pretty much the gist of all those custom fasteners, either make it incredibly annoying (looking at you, Apple) or just make it clear that if you open the thing, you meant to do it.

overgead is sooo ugly, is it the developer of the housing trying to save money by not putting it all underground?

There are times i wish i had overhead service instead of underground, but distance from the pole is probably why i assume. I always considered overheard as less safe cuz of wind and what not. But underground is more of a pain to repair, which actually happened to me about 15 or so years ago, they set me up with a generator until they fixed the line.

What advice would you have for groundman that are mentally fatigued from all the negativity of the other employees?

Great video. Careful not to strip out those aluminum screws with your impact is the only thing new guys should be wary of.

Nice work gloves! We use those too. Comfortable right out of the bag! I like your penda star sweeping wrench to open the hand hole box. Always thinking of you & your family. Keep up the great content!

In the Great Out Doors(tm) there's no such thing as "water proof". Everyone uses aluminium because it's lighter and _cheaper._ (fools will still steal it thinking it's copper.)

I’m amazed that your company allowed this installation! Why in the world would they not demand a standard triplex drop to that temporary when it’s less than 10 ft away from a pole with a 75KVA can? The throw away of some very expensive bus connectors is the least of the issue. In the end, the installation leaves an unprotected service entrance cable laying on the ground for anything in the world to roll over it in a construction zone. I looked it up and a 75KVA transformer provides more than 18,000 fault amps available on the secondary side. Certainly not something that should be just laying around! You normally put out some good stuff but this one is nothing less than dangerous; temporary or not.

Just got hired this week and start as a groundsman next week! Thanks for all your content and educational information you've taught me. One question though, and you might have answered it. Do you guys not have to cover up parts of padmount transformers when working in them? We have to cover up every potential in our working area besides the one that we're working on. Is your company just relatively relaxed on that?

Another great one. Stay safe out their. 👍

We’ve had issues with the higher position blocks burning up due to load and all. We reduced the number we permitted and changed the position of the source connection to the middle.

I'm still amazed by how rules change between countries.

Comoon bruh buy more batterys, borrowing sucks bruh 👋👋

Ferrules on the original connections, but you didn't use them on the new ones?

It’s 1 3/4 strip and 3 3/4 marker tape @ 25 ‘ lbs

We have them in 3 way and 4 way in Baltimore I see them fail all the time

The company needs to buy you another Milwaukee battery.

Do you ever feed from the center out on the longer "Polaris" blocks? On the high load, many parallel conductor transformers, we always feed in to the center and go out from the sides. That way you don't have one spot on that block that has all the current on it. Not sure if Polaris specs that or not, forget.... In this case, with a few small services it doesn't matter though.

Do you ever try oooot old connectors?

A 75 KVA can will provide enough fault current? I was told the largest can we can set for residential is 50kva.

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nice overview on connecting that temp construction service. I don't think those connectors are rated for imersion, but cetrainly for weather exposure in a wet situation. BTW, watching from sunny Florida on vacation this week.

Hey bud and hello from Tarpon Springs Florida, you had mentioned it briefly at the very end, but from a commercial refrigeration technician (who deals with three phase equipment) THANK YOU for checking polarity! My refrigeration equipment is three phase supply and they’ll run the compressors and indoor blower motor as three phase but they use the condenser fans on single phase and make the connections inside my controls panel. So if the lineman does work out at the pole, and flip flops L1 for L3 or something else, my equipment literally runs backwards!!!! P.S.C. motors don’t mind so much to run backwards as with reciprocating compressors but the “new” Scroll compressors will get permanent damage. I’ve put on quite a few phase monitoring devices to shut down the unit if that happens.

Interesting thank you. Yes Safety 1st! A couple of curiosities: 1) the plastic terminal block looks easy to make connections. 1b) Self-sealing features with silicone along with mfgr's claim can seal out water when immerse is a tall order. 1c) Perhaps under premise that mechanical forces of wires being connected do not distort terminal block plastic frame? 1d) The same or similar connections in handholes or manholes exposed to deicing brines, chlorides, and blends how robust would the connector be? 2) Are there any benificial reasons why your array of tools, test instruments, etc are placed on dirt instead of on a clean tray? PS- Kudos for collecting debris.

Nice!

Great Video - First time seeing Raychem GelPort Connectors, still prefer 'high and dry'

Our neighborhood uses the same concrete connection boxes you were working in. As usual, you provide the kind of detailed information that makes these videos so interesting and informative❗️Thanks again👍

Cool to see the gel ports used over there we use them at work over here in Australia Normally to replace blown up Direct buried service connections AKA a (fargo )a old school system used over here,cool to see them used elsewhere great videos, Aaron

Good job Aaron.

Man it’s a shame the diddnt run everything underground. For looks you are half way there with the street to house underground already

This is the kind of video I love! shows the small stuff!

It's pronounced Ray-Kem. Raychem.

Question please, what is the other green box next to the underground power box please? I'm guessing some kind of communication but was it phone, cable TV, fiber, ect. Please? TIA Another absolutely purrfict video IMO! Thank you so much! I look forward to watching all your videos! My Dad was a cable TV technician most of my life so i've always been REALLY interested in ALL this type of stuff! I used 2 go with my Dad a lot as a kid.

Love the videos from baltimore maryland

I dread the future when I see that all residential are single phase. This will not do if everyone there has an electric car. Going to have to run 3 phase everywhere.

Gross. For new construction why didn't the developer just put it all underground?

Nice cable connectors Aaron.

9:50 _Fully_ submerged?? That's impressive.

GREAT VIDEO!!!!!!!!!!

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I like the new gel ports a lot more than sweet hearts. Pg&e has moved us over to those and I’m loving using them so far. Much less prep work aswell

Ok Aaron just to clarify when you say open the transformer it means to close the current (cut off electricity) and close the transformer or the fuse it's to reopen the current (return the electricity) unless I misunderstood it's a little mix I find

It seems a just about every utility has stopped running their own cable. I get it, for liability issues, but the whole point of the union is to keep jobs for union members. Its not exactly fair game to throw the bone to scabs and rats when there are plenty of union positions available or able to be made available. From a company side i understand its cheaper to use non union contractors but that screws the union members over. Obv im not knowledgeable on whether you are in a closed shop district or open, so idk if your company allows non union. Great video, thanks!

Great video thanks for sharing