Daniel T. Burrows wrote:
>transformer. There is only the 1 connection at the pole. A friend of mine
>used to burry lines for the local phone company and has hit on occasion
>(when the locator screwed up) the 14KV drops and said all he ever finds is a
>single wire from the result. He did say it is impressive when it gets
>shorted however. He has melted teeth off the backhoe bucket and his ears
>hurt for a while afterwords. It also works wonders on the ditch witch teeth
>and the vibrating plow blades. Even though the power drops are supposed to
>be a minimum of 3 feet down that is not always the case.
Reminds me of when I was working as an Electrician on a Frigate, we were in
Charleston, getting ready to shift from ships power to shore power.
Thankfully it was the senior Electrician at the switchboard that time and
not me :^) He did something wrong, and tried to power the city of
Charleston.
IIRC, a Frigate runs 3 shore power cables. Those cables are 4-5 inches
across, and have 3-Phase power going through them. Well, he blew those
cables up quite nicely, and a good portion of the ships CO2 extiguishers
were rushed to the pier and used. There were a LOT of unhappy people as a
result of this.
Zane
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Received on Tue Apr 27 1999 - 23:32:57 BST