22 Feb
2007
22 Feb
'07
10:40 a.m.
Hi,
Jules Richardson said:
Tony Duell wrote:
Thay do the same job...I used to live at the end of one of these lines
in Kent. In winter the snow would often bring the lines down, and
in summer the cows would use the poles as scratching posts and push them
over - never saw an electrocuted cow though...
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Cheers,
Stan Barr stanb at dial.pipex.com
The future was never like this!
(there are no 'pole pigs' over here)
Is that always true? Sometimes on rural roads with just one or two houses (and
also individually on farms) I've seen pole-mounted transformers and wondered
what their function is - I'd assumed they were step-down transformers from
overhead line voltage (several KV I'd guess) to 240VAC. Or do they do some
completely different job?