[time-nuts] 60 Hz measurement party

[Will Matney]

Hah, I really mis-spelled industrial didn't I?

Sorry folks, the spell check doesn't work on my e-mail now for some odd
reason.

Best,

Will

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On 6/26/2011 at 7:55 PM Will Matney wrote:

>Bill,
>
>I wish it was that way here, but it's not, only along the highway where
the
>general business is located. Now, across the Ohio River, on the
Huntington,
>WV side, it is more insudtrial, and they do have it in places as your
>thinking of, all through town. It's like that from Huntington WV, all the
>way to Ashland, Ky, or on that side of the river.
>
>I live in Proctorville, Ohio, a really small town, or really about 2-1/2
>miles above it, and it's all sub divisions here. We're right across the
>Ohio River from Huntington. The poles for all these houses carry one hot
>wire on top, off a single insulator, plus there's a ground or neutral, the
>telephone, and TV cable, and that's all we have on a pole. They just bug
>onto the top line with the fuse blow-out, and into the transformer. Out of
>the transformer goes to the neutral, and then a ground wire down the pole,
>if it's a pole with a transformer on it, like behind me here. It's like
>that everywhere here, unless you get to a larger city like our county seat
>at Ironton, or at South Point. The three phase lines we have are along the
>highway, and or main roads, but when you hit the streets, that are all
>residential, the above mentioned scheme is all we have. I guess it's
>because that on this end of our county, it was mostly farming, until now
>that's it built up over the past 30 years. The farms are gone, and in
their
>place are new sub divisions, but they still run the power to the new homes
>the same way. To have three phase here, you either have to own property by
>the highway (St Rt 7), or you use a converter. I guess that's just the way
>AEP wants to do it.
>
>Best,
>
>Will
>
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>>On 6/26/2011 at 4:27 PM WB6BNQ wrote:
>>Will Matney wrote: 
>>snip 
>>As of now, the only 3 phase lines around here are close to the major
roads
>where business resides, but when you get into the residential areas, it's
>only single phase on the poles. 
>>  
>>Best, 
>>Will 
>> 
>>Will, 
>>I am going to have to disagree with your statement above (in blue).  In
>residential areas the top three lines are 3 phase and, typically, 4 KV.
>Yes, only single phase is routed to homes as 220 volts center tapped via a
>transformer.  AND, you will also see three (3) 220 volt lines at a lower
>level on the poles feeding the houses grouped for that transformer.
>Depending upon routing, there may be small runs that are stringers from a
>transformer where only the 220 volt wires are run, but only because there
>was no intent to continue the 4 KV bus in that direction. 
>>The reason for the 3 phase is to balance the load to the substation.
That
>is the transformers are spread out along the path and connected (single
>phase) alternately across different phases. 
>>At least that is how it is done out here on the West Coast !  I realize
>there may be exceptions in really old areas of the country, particularly
>along the East Coast. 
>>I am located in San Diego, CA area.  What part of the country are you in
?
>
>>Bill....WB6BNQ
>
>
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