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Posted by on September 26, 2005, 12:27 am
On Sun, 25 Sep 2005 22:42:39 -0500, Duane Bozarth
>But the six foot of salt water w/ storm surge takes the poles down
>anyway...
Only if you are on the beach. Inland water comes up and goes down
faitrly slow. The concrete poles will usually even hold up on the
beach. In large parts of Florida (and other Gulf coast states) you
also have a water table that is a few feet below ground, hence no
basements. A manhole is a small swimming pool.
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Posted by Edwin Pawlowski on September 25, 2005, 10:56 pm
> People are too stupid to recognize the long-term benefits. As long
> as power doesn't go out 'too often' they only whine about it but do
> nothing
> to get it solved.
No, not too stupid, just to cheap to pay for it.
Down he road from me there is a community of about 40 houses with
underground wires. Problem is, they are fed with overhead wires that go
down in a breeze so they are often without power. No one is willing to
change it yet though. Not just reliability, just stop and look at the
overhead mess in some areas of the city.
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Posted by Jim Yanik on September 25, 2005, 4:45 pm
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>> just because there are a lot of sparks etc, what makes you think that
>> a __transformer__ blew up?
>> every see what a high voltage (not a 120 Volt line) line does when it
>> touches the ground?
>> pretty spectacular
> Well, the electric company spent the next two weeks replacing
> transformers. Or they lied to the newspapers about what they were
> doing; I can't say which.
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Transformers can "blow up" if they have too much load put on them,there can
be weak spots or stresses in the windings that fail under extreme loads.
With those power levels,that is why they "blow up".
--
Jim Yanik
jyanik
at
kua.net
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Posted by Edwin Pawlowski on September 25, 2005, 4:04 am
> just because there are a lot of sparks etc, what makes you think that a
> __transformer__ blew up?
Could be from the pictures on the news showing transformers blowing up????
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Posted by Duane Bozarth on September 25, 2005, 1:08 pm
Edwin Pawlowski wrote:
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> > just because there are a lot of sparks etc, what makes you think that a
> > __transformer__ blew up?
>
> Could be from the pictures on the news showing transformers blowing up????
Could be the pictures actually show fuses blowing rather than
transformers themselves???
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