30-11-2017, 12:04 AM
The speculation stopped when I looked at the gear owned by a shiny new 200 amp per phase customer 100 yards from the pole.
The original cable was quite a bit smaller and south facing so in the daytime when demand is greatest the sun was adding heat to an already overloaded cable hence the upgrade the engineer told me about. The line is indeed 11Kv.
The trouble is that bean counters failed to keep up with new technology and failed to get the cable uprated when the new customer was connected.
There was a carbon footprint
The original cable was quite a bit smaller and south facing so in the daytime when demand is greatest the sun was adding heat to an already overloaded cable hence the upgrade the engineer told me about. The line is indeed 11Kv.
The trouble is that bean counters failed to keep up with new technology and failed to get the cable uprated when the new customer was connected.
There was a carbon footprint
