Re: bad pole xmfrs

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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
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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 -----
 >
 >
 >