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Western Power Thing on a Pole.

Well it was on two poles actually. Supported on metal supports across the two poles. It was a type of transformer thingy but not one that I recognised. A grey metal box, quite small down a long country lane. It appeared to be fed by three phase 400 Volt overhead aerial bunched conductors, no 11kV in sight. Could it be a step up thingy to compensate for the long run to the remote houses? I must learn how to post pictures. It was in Watery Lane in Beechampton near to Stony Stratford in Bucks M.K. It was interesting to see that the stream had mostly dried up, but at the lowest point that is where a pole had its P.M.E. earth electrode. Do you think that the installers deliberately chose that spot as it was likely to remain damp during very dry weather?

Z.

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  • there are redundant ends showing in my photo above.

    If you mean the ends of the ABCs, I don't think they're redundant, just a feature of the way they make connections to the ABC conductors - i.e. they clamp on an insulation displacing (or insulation piercing?) terminal along the length of the conductor to make the connection to the insulated & sheathed singles they run down the pole, and the ends of the ABCs are just capped off. I guess they could have cut the ends shorter for neatness or maybe deliberately left longer for possible future additions?

       - Andy.

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  • there are redundant ends showing in my photo above.

    If you mean the ends of the ABCs, I don't think they're redundant, just a feature of the way they make connections to the ABC conductors - i.e. they clamp on an insulation displacing (or insulation piercing?) terminal along the length of the conductor to make the connection to the insulated & sheathed singles they run down the pole, and the ends of the ABCs are just capped off. I guess they could have cut the ends shorter for neatness or maybe deliberately left longer for possible future additions?

       - Andy.

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