Power goes off at about three PM. Power guy comes up and gets the lights on about 3:45. We are off the main line with a 25 Amp fuse and a 14,500 Volt primary line into our subdivision. Talking to the guy, he tells me that handling 14,500 Volts barehanded on a fiberglass cherry picker, he can feel the current. I AINT gonna touch fourteen and a half KV with anything but a twenty foot pole, made of glass. Then, while we are talking, a big black bird swoops down and grabs the body of the squirell and takes it home for supper. A happy day, I guess, the rodent (how the hell do you spell squirell anyway?) didn't suffer, the bird had an already cooked supper, and I only had to set about half a dozen clocks. Anyway 14.5 KV, times 25 Amps is how many Watts that went thru that critter?

Lewis

Lewis,
Must be the magnetic field surrounding the wire disturbing bodily functions as to be a current monitor. I've been told that the static charge on above ground power lines is more dangerous than the generated power, and all you have to be is at a slightly lower potential to get zapped.

marv

:Power goes off at about three PM. Power guy comes up and gets the lights on about 3:45. We are off the main line with a 25 Amp fuse and a 14,500 Volt primary line into our subdivision. Talking to the guy, he tells me that handling 14,500 Volts barehanded on a fiberglass cherry picker, he can feel the current. I AINT gonna touch fourteen and a half KV with anything but a twenty foot pole, made of glass. Then, while we are talking, a big black bird swoops down and grabs the body of the squirell and takes it home for supper. A happy day, I guess, the rodent (how the hell do you spell squirell anyway?) didn't suffer, the bird had an already cooked supper, and I only had to set about half a dozen clocks. Anyway 14.5 KV, times 25 Amps is how many Watts that went thru that critter?
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:Lewis
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Lewis,

With two "R"s instead of two "L"s.

:Power goes off at about three PM. Power guy comes up and gets the lights on about 3:45. We are off the main line with a 25 Amp fuse and a 14,500 Volt primary line into our subdivision. Talking to the guy, he tells me that handling 14,500 Volts barehanded on a fiberglass cherry picker, he can feel the current. I AINT gonna touch fourteen and a half KV with anything but a twenty foot pole, made of glass. Then, while we are talking, a big black bird swoops down and grabs the body of the squirell and takes it home for supper. A happy day, I guess, the rodent (how the hell do you spell squirell anyway?) didn't suffer, the bird had an already cooked supper, and I only had to set about half a dozen clocks. Anyway 14.5 KV, times 25 Amps is how many Watts that went thru that critter?
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:Lewis
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