They were working on a transformer located on the highway, not in the neighborhood; the entire neighborhood was out.
*Shallow end, being shocked when grabbing railing*
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811 request has been submitted. I noticed this on their final page of submission:
SAFE WORK CLEARANCE: You may carefully "hand" dig around the marked lines. Do not use mechanized/electric/power equipment within:
SAFE WORK CLEARANCE: You may carefully "hand" dig around the marked lines. Do not use mechanized/electric/power equipment within:
- Maryland Excavation: 18 inches of the marked lines
- Delaware Excavation: 24 inches of the marked lines
811 came out and everything checks out. Absolutely NOTHING runs through the backyard. All electric runs over to the side of the house under the driveway. From the driveway, the line stops 7 feet from the edge of the curb and runs around the cul-de-sac to the transformer.
Also, the PC will be on their way out today. I'm going to ask them to lift their neutral.
Also, the PC will be on their way out today. I'm going to ask them to lift their neutral.
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Disappointing but at least we know. Sorry for the wild goose chase but there was a real possibility for a minute there.
PC came out, I explained everything. He said that he can't lift his neutral because it would mess stuff up, and he's only here to check to see if we have good voltage 
. I explained that we pulled our neutral from the meter to our panel and still had voltage. He said, "Ah, okay. I'm calling out a team right now to check for ground faults. Let's hope it's not under concrete."
So there we are, a ground fault team has been dispatched and hopefully they'll be out here today.
No worries about the 811, it's better to be safe.
. I explained that we pulled our neutral from the meter to our panel and still had voltage. He said, "Ah, okay. I'm calling out a team right now to check for ground faults. Let's hope it's not under concrete."So there we are, a ground fault team has been dispatched and hopefully they'll be out here today.
No worries about the 811, it's better to be safe.
My only other thought would be to have them search for the bleed off voltage that your seeing and not the electricute-y kind. If they are looking for 100/200/300 they’d go right by it with green lights on their testers/meters
The PC's on the hunt to find where everything goes to on the street. 
They are trying to locate the underground function box the connects with the neighbors and lamp post with a prodding stick. *Dear lord please don't cut my FiOS cable*
The freaking junction box is located under my driveway. They are knocking on everyone's door to see if they can turn off the power and pull meters then working on the main bus.
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Well you sure got some exposure on this now Hope something great comes out of it...
Hope something great comes out of it...
We officially stumped the power company!
Including my house, 4 homes are on the transformer across the street. They removed each house meter, solar off, turned off the house from the transformer.... 40mV on neutral and nothing on common.
Yet, we still had 2VAC at the pool to the anchors!
We officially stumped the crew who came out.
It's being evelated up to engineering for further review. I'll need to keep calling them to stay on their radar.
I told them the only time it fully went away is when we had a power outage. They had another job to go to so it concluded with a big
from that team.
Including my house, 4 homes are on the transformer across the street. They removed each house meter, solar off, turned off the house from the transformer.... 40mV on neutral and nothing on common.
Yet, we still had 2VAC at the pool to the anchors!
We officially stumped the crew who came out.
It's being evelated up to engineering for further review. I'll need to keep calling them to stay on their radar.
I told them the only time it fully went away is when we had a power outage. They had another job to go to so it concluded with a big
from that team.It’s still progress that you got their attention and have them looking for the freak kinda thing it might be.
Like your most unassuming neighbor with an illegal tap running a Bitcoin mining operation.
Yes, unfortunately I didn't have any extra time to "test" because they had to leave at that point for another job.
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Note that you don't have to have power lines traversing your yard for the yard to be energized. If the neighbor's yard is energized, there is a good chance yours will be as well. Any exposed AC power line underground nearby will generate current to each house via the earth ground to the neutral. The voltage level will be dependent on the distance from the voltage source to each houses ground point much like a voltage divider. You may be getting only 2v because you are some distance from the actual source of the problem.
Were both of your next door neighbors two of the four houses that had the meters pulled?