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11kV Overheads and Water Spray.

You a are farmer. You have potato fields that need watering due to the lack of rain and the hot weather. You tow your water sprayer trailer out to the potato field and connect up the pipes. The water can be mains or deep bore hole sourced. The spray is very high pressure and reaches a great height. In fact it reached the 11kV overhead cables that run across your field.

Is there any danger?

Here is a static system, but yours is mobile on a tyred trailer. It does though show the height of the sprays.

Large Lawn Field Irrigation System - Bing video

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0 Lisa Miles over 3 years ago

I was out walking yesterday evening and came across this in one of the farmers fields

The lines on the far right are the lines above the mainline train tracks. They were all getting a good wash by the looks of it!
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0 Lisa Miles over 3 years ago

I was out walking yesterday evening and came across this in one of the farmers fields

The lines on the far right are the lines above the mainline train tracks. They were all getting a good wash by the looks of it!
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0 AncientMariner over 2 years ago in reply to Lisa Miles

My guess is that the 3-phase overhead lines are either 22 kV (rare but does exist) or 33 kV. Both between phases whereas the railway single phase supply is 25 kV.

Reminds me of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_salute ISTR one instance where an overenthusiastic fireman(?) aimed the water jet into the aircraft's engine. https://www.flightglobal.com/united-airlines-unitentional-foam-salute-that-damaged-boeing-777-meant-as-water-salute-says-dulles-fire-crew-/71256.article ooops!

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11kV Overheads and Water Spray.

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