Powerlines

From: Eric Smith <eric_at_brouhaha.com>
Date: Tue Apr 27 12:52:41 1999

"Daniel T. Burrows" <danburrows_at_mindspring.com> wrote:
> Take a close look at rural areas and there is only 1 High voltage line
> present.
> It is fed to the HT input of all the pole transformers.
[...]
> When there are 3 phases available that sometimes is the case. Look closely
> at the pole transformers and in most cases when there are 2 or more
> transformers mounted on 1 pole there is only 1 HT input to each transformer.
> If it were between phases there would be 2 HT inputs.

How can the transformer possibly work if the primary is only connected to one
HT line? What is the other side of the primary connected to? Where's the
return path?
Received on Tue Apr 27 1999 - 12:52:41 BST