Meter Jumpers - Device Technologies Inc

Device Technologies Inc Quality Meter Jumper Products

Meter Jumpers are used on self-contained meter services to temporarily supply a customer’s power while the meter is removed from service. Contact us for custom configurations or setups of our products.

Meter Jumpers Built by Device Technologies, Inc.

are used in training Schools training new and experienced technicians for the field.

Device Technologies, Inc. produces products for a variety of industries. One of these industries is the power utility such as Comed Exellon.

One of the products produced is the Electric Meter Jumper. The Electric Meter Jumper is used by field technicians and engineers when a meter is being updated or replaced.The purpose of the Meter Jumper is to Jump around the meter being serviced before pulling the meter from the socket with the Meter Jumper properly installed the meter can be pulled from the socket without interrupting the power to that facility.

The Meter Jumpers can be produced in any color code and desired length for single phase and three phase meter fittings.

All Meter Jumpers are built to our customer’s specifications and are approved by the customer’s own safety personnel.

Each Meter Jumper regardless of configuration is manufactured with strict guidelines to insure product performance repeatability.

Device Technologies, Inc. can offer suggestions as to what works well with technicians in the field under a variety of different situations based on tried and true methods.

Alligator Jumpers

Horn Jumpers are used on self-contained meter services, to temporarily supply a customer’s power while the meter is removed from service. The Jumpers have a high-tension design, which firmly grip the horn bypass on a meter socket. Horn Jumpers are constructed of 4-AWG heavy-duty copper wire, and rated at 600V/100A. The two copper connectors at each end of the wire are fully insulated for added safety.

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Pin Jumpers

P/N NSPJ-0012 (12″ long)
P/N NSPJ-0024 (24″ long)

Meter Jumpers COMED is presently using in the field. The “Pin Jumper” uses solid brass hex connectors.

With Male or Female ¼-20 threads in an A-Base Type Meter fitting. The Hex pins are first installed onto existing studs or female threads. The Orange Flex Cable with Color Coded female brass receivers are slipped onto the hex pin. The Link nuts can now be loosened.

Notice that the receivers are installed on the jumper studs allowing the nuts holding the links to be loosened so the links can be removed. This type of meter fitting is an older version but still found all over.

Removing the copper links.

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Horn Jumpers

P/N NSHJ-4031 (31″long)

These days most meter fittings are more modern.
Shown below the “Horn Jumper” is used to bypass the meter for servicing or updating, without interrupting electrical service to the facility.

The one piece split solid brass receiver of the “Horn Jumper” acts the same as an old style cloths pin with its own clamping force to make good electrical contact and stay clamped on to the meter fitting tab until its pulled off by the technician after servicing

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Triple ``Y`` Jumpers

P/N

(A Triple “Y” Jumper is a multi-grounding jumper able to connect to several objects at one end and grounding that group through a single lead) Typically used in low voltage to provide a protecting ground to circuit boards and CRT’s (cathode ray tubes) during servicing.

The name Triple “Y” Connector originated by the field technicians at Com-ed/Exelon because of their desired configuration however, this multi-jumper can be constructed with more than three leads at any length and tailored to any configuration.

Device Technologies, Inc. is an approved supply chain vendor for
Exellon, Comed, Northern Illinois Gas, Peoples gas, North shore gas
Southern gas, Wisconsin Power.

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