JohnJ0906

I'm not exactly sure where this thread belongs, so please move it to a more appropriate spot.

This was a house I did a few months back. We still haven't been back to final yet, but it should be re-done to underground by the time we get back.







The transformer is about 8' from the 3rd floor window. The 7.2 Kv primary is about 3' - yes I said 3 FEET from the windows on the side of the house. Please forgive me for not measuring! POCO has already planned to redo this to underground ($25,000) and 2 of the other houses on this transformer.

Just thought you all would like an eye-opener.

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John from Baltimore
"One day at a Time"
All responses based on the '08 NEC
It's not my fault, it's not my problem, I'm not your solution.

Speedy Petey

WHOA! Close is the polite term. I can think of a few expletives to put before the word "close" in this case.


Is that the Chesapeake in the background?

brian john

Can you say EMF......

JohnJ0906

Yes. You can see the Bay Bridge easilly from this window.... except for the transformer blocking the view!

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John from Baltimore
"One day at a Time"
All responses based on the '08 NEC
It's not my fault, it's not my problem, I'm not your solution.

Magnettica

Free fluorescent lighting!!! :THUMBSUP:

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JohnJ0906

Someone else suggested to stick a flouresent tube out the window to see if it would light up. My answer was, and remains, this: C'mon down and feel free to do it, I'm not sticking anything out those windows!

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John from Baltimore
"One day at a Time"
All responses based on the '08 NEC
It's not my fault, it's not my problem, I'm not your solution.

Magnettica

I don't think you'll get hurt doing it. I believe the magnetic field coming off the distribution line is enough to ingnite the mercury vapor contained within' the fluorescent tube. I was also taught that doing this on a damp, muggy summer night would get the best results. I've never actually tried this, but I did learn about it in school.

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high leg

hey its a linemans clothes line

aricsavage

i wonder how the guys doing the sidding will feel about that.

JohnJ0906

As an update, I know that this was moved to underground. However, I haven't seen it myself - I didn't do the final.

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John from Baltimore
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All responses based on the '08 NEC
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Celtic

We used to do it under NJT's 25 and 13k catenary lines

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LawnGuyLandSparky

Ever see a pidgeon blow up on one of those things? Being something like 400hz, the explosive force is spectacular.

Working in the Manhattan entrance to the Amtrack tunnels to NJ, the birds would land between the catenary and a steel crossover gantry - it was like a gigantic bug zapper. All you see is a flash of light, by the time you hear the explosion, all that's left to see are some flaming feathers drifting onto the railbed.

goose134

I was working at DePaul U and my boss told me about a squirrel that had chewed through a service feed. He's standing about ten feet away from the pipe running up the pole to the transformer when BOOM! He says he sees the squirrel in a smoking arc like it was shot out of a grenade launcher. Thing is, occasionally he will see (as I have) a squirrel with a bald half tail and a ghastly limp. Same one? We like to think so.

Celtic

Plenty of times.
The "worst" was probably one out at Summit station...there is a pedestrian bridge over the rails...with the cat. just under that bridge work....a pigeon got himself blown up, but didn't die ~ he was laying on the ties for a bit with his head bobbing like a chicken as commuters were all aghast.....I thought for sure they would have thanked me for whacking that pigeon with a shovel to put it out of THEIR misery.

A few years back I worked a job on this side of that tunnel....seems they needed some really big ceiling fans to clear the tunnel if there were to be an "incident". We wound up building a complete sub-station. Nioce!

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3phase

And having a real bad day, the squirrel that is.