vocabulary terms

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Across
  1. 2. a device that measures the amount of electric energy consumed by a building, tenant space, or electrically powered equipment.
  2. 8. The underground conductors between the service point and the first point of connection to the service-entrance conductors in a terminal box, meter, or other enclosure, inside or outside the building wall.
  3. 9. The point of connection between the utility facilities of the serving utility and the premises wiring
  4. 11. an electrical safety device, a switch that automatically interrupts the current of an overloaded
  5. 13. The overhead conductors between the utility electric supply system and the service point
  6. 14. The conductors and equipment for delivering electric energy from the serving utility to the wiring system of the premises served.
  7. 15. a network of exterior, underground utility lines or pipes that supply a home with electricity, gas, water, and sewer functions.
Down
  1. 1. The necessary equipment, usually consisting of a circuit breaker(s) or switch(es) and fuse(s) and their accessories, connected to the load end of service conductors to a building or other structure, or an otherwise designated area, and intended to constitute the main control and cutoff of the supply.
  2. 3. a piece of equipment that connects the electrical meter to the electrical service line
  3. 4. a system or circuit conductor that is intentionally grounded
  4. 5. a weatherproof service drop entry point where overhead power or telephone wires enter a building, or where wires transition between overhead and underground cables.
  5. 6. the main distribution point for electricity entering your home from the utility company
  6. 7. a metal bar (typically copper or galvanized iron) that is driven into the ground to provide a predetermined electrical path to safely dissipate a static charge to the earth.
  7. 10. utility-owned underground conductors between the serving electric utility transformer and the service point
  8. 12. not connected to ground or to a conductive body that extends to ground connection.