Re: bad pole xmfrs

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Original poster: "Neko4" <neko4-at-dodo-dot-com.au> 


or not..... my house here has a 35 amp main circuit breaker, a 8 amp fuse 
for lights, 16 amp fuse for power, 30 amp fuse for cooker, 30 amp fuse for 
water heater, and a very old 70 amp fuse on the electricity company's side 
of the meter box. you blow the 70 amp fuse, and your royally screwed here; 
they'll need to upgrade your entire system and they'll charge you for it. 
Luckily I pinched a spare from a house about to be demolished :)

I am always blowing the 35 amp breaker with my experiments; and sometimes 
blowing the 16 amp fuse. SO yeah, in reality you'll probably

a.

blow your own fuse

b. either trip your earth leakage detector ( elements in pool = bad) or 
kill someone who accidentally jumps in the pool.

Check your fuses first and make sure they can all handle 200 amps!

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On 11/04/2004 at 10:58 AM Tesla list wrote:

 >Original poster: "Hydrogen18" <hydrogen18-at-hydrogen18-dot-com>

 >

 >Maybe I should go out and buy lots of heater elements(199 amps worth) and

 >see if I can do any damage. I could just drop them in the pool for cooling.

 >

 >---Eric

 >----- Original Message -----

 >From: "Tesla list" <tesla-at-pupman-dot-com>

 >To: <tesla-at-pupman-dot-com>

 >Sent: Sunday, April 11, 2004 8:52 AM

 >Subject: Re: bad pole xmfrs

 >

 >

 > > Original poster: DRIEBEN-at-midsouth.rr-dot-com

 > >

 > > Hi Eric,

 > >

 > > Yes, most average sized homes have 200 amp electrical service but

 > > how often is a house actually drawing 200 amps at one time?

 > > If you look inside your load center breaker (or fuse) box,

 > > the sum total amperage of all of your circuits may very well

 > > exceed the 200 amp rating of the main breaker switch as well.

 > > It would be very unlikely that every electrical customer would

 > > be pulling the maximum load at any particular given time and

 > > that's how the utility company can get by with using a trans-

 > > former whose kVA rating dosen't seem to add up to the demand.

 > > And, as I was stating in a previous post on this subject, pole

 > > pigs can easily handle reasonable temporary overloads of their

 > > nameplate rating.

 > >

 > > David Rieben

 > >

 > > ----- Original Message -----

 > > From: Tesla list <tesla-at-pupman-dot-com>

 > > Date: Saturday, April 10, 2004 6:38 pm

 > > Subject: Re: bad pole xmfrs

 > >

 > > > Original poster: "Hydrogen18" <hydrogen18-at-hydrogen18-dot-com>

 > > >

 > > > On pig over loading, heres something to keep in mind, the 37.5 KVA

 > > > pig I am

 > > > feed of off serves 4 houses. 200 amp service to each houses equals

 > > > 192 KVA.

 > > > Is it just me, or does that seem a little weird?

 > > >

 > > > ---Eric

 > > > ----- Original Message -----

 > >

 > >

 > >




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