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 >*********** REPLY SEPARATOR *********** > >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 _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.
