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Posted by TD on May 18, 2008, 2:19 am
letterman@invalid.com wrote in
> In rural areas I often see on power poles these things that look like
> small transformers, which are not near any buildings. They are on the
> primary lines, which I understand are generally around 15KV. These
> look similar to the transformers used by homes and buisnesses, except
> they are smaller, particularly smaller in diameter. They only have
> two insulators on the top. They hang on a pole. The wire coming to
> that pole enters one of the insulators, the wire leaving that pole
> (going to the next pole) is on the other insulator. In other words
> they are in series with the wires and on the HOT side. The ground
> wire (lower on the pole) is not affected at these poles, it just
> continues on.
>
> What are these things for? What do they do?
>
> I should mention that I have seen THREE of them on poles that furnish
> 3phase power (4 wires with the ground). Each of the 3 wires goes to
> one of these things.
>
> Thanks
>
>
They're put there by the government to spy on you.
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