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Jacob Ehrgott
  • Auburn, NY
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Electrical issue

Jacob Ehrgott
  • Auburn, NY
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Just want to make sure this isn't anything super simple before paying for an electrician. I have a 4 unit house and the electric company took the meter off for one of the apartments. We eventually had to pay for an electrical inspection before they would put it back on. Now the meters back on and the electric company is saying we should be all set and we have the breakers turned back on but we are not getting any power to the apartment. Any electricians or people with some knowledge on the subject know what could be wrong? It seems to me there were no issues before so now that the meter is back on there shouldn't be issues so I feel it's probably something simple I'm missing.

Thanks,

Jake

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Bill Turner
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  • Tallahassee, FL
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Bill Turner
  • Investor
  • Tallahassee, FL
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Your apartment should have a electrical breaker panel.  Make sure all breakers are turned on.  The main break is probably off.  If all breakers are on go to Home Depot buy a 30 dollar ac meter that will read up to 240 volts.  Take of breaker panel cover.  Be care not to touch insides with anything but meter lead tips.   Use probes on meter to check the input to main breaker.  If there is no voltage the power company installed a bad meter or installed it incorrectly.  If there is voltage on input check the out put of breaker.  If there is no power breaker is tripped and needs to be reset or is bad and needs to be replaced.  Will try to post pics of my breaker panel so.  Hope this helps

Bill

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