There are a lot of things I don't know, especially about power
distribution. I do know there's a neutral coming off the center tap on
the secondary side of an XFormer. So there's neutral on the power pole
at least some of the time. </pedantry>
On 7/13/2020 12:48 PM, Bill Prince wrote:
There is no neutral on power poles. Just hots. One, two, or three usually.
bp
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On 7/13/2020 9:38 AM, Josh Luthman wrote:
Just standard power like at home. Not three phase. It's an FM radio
station. I would assume the hot is at top and neutral below, but
it's been a while since I've seen it myself. Goes from HV on the
road to the tower's (power/utility) pole with a transformer/fuse.
Two robins on Saturday. Starling a few minutes ago. No nests up
there - maybe that's what they are trying to do?
Josh Luthman
Office: 937-552-2340
Direct: 937-552-2343
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Suite 1337
Troy, OH 45373
On Mon, Jul 13, 2020 at 12:35 PM <ch...@wbmfg.com
<mailto:ch...@wbmfg.com>> wrote:
What kind of power line? Like three phase on a cross arm or
single phase with the hot at the top and neutral down below etc?
Nesting activity? Seem way late in the year for that. What kind
of bird?
*From:* Josh Luthman
*Sent:* Monday, July 13, 2020 10:29 AM
*To:* AFMUG
*Subject:* [AFMUG] OT: Birds going crazy?
On Saturday we had a power outage. Beautiful day. Towers on
batteries, but after an hour we head up there with a generator.
Plug it in and we're good to go. Outage was caused by a bird on
the pole and the fuse popped.
Power company comes by, puts up a new fuse. Power is back. He
gets in the truck and drives down the lane, about 50 feet, and
*POP*. Another bird and fuse. Replaces another. Good for a few
more hours.
Then this morning - power outage AGAIN. A third "bird" on the
ground below the fuse.
Obviously something's going on, being it's been three times in
three days when this has never happened since ~2008. Maybe
someone put peanut oil and the rodents are trading services?
Josh Luthman
Office: 937-552-2340
Direct: 937-552-2343
1100 Wayne St
Suite 1337
Troy, OH 45373
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