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wtdoor67
11-24-2010, 10:56 AM
PSO did have one feature I thought good. Each type of transformer had a code number. I only remember one code #. For example if you had a bad pot you just called in for a 711 of a certain KVA. This was a little handier than saying you wanted a certain KVA, 7620, double bushing, 120/240 I guess.

I recall a 411 was a 7620 single bushing with 120/240 secondary. They always ordered OH pots with protected bushings and used 5KV covered #4 for primary leads. No squirrel guards etc. required. They had a few good practices.

Oh yeah, forgot to add they ordered all pots with a transformer mounted arrester. They've done this for several years. Only thing you have to be cut in on is when you build a Wye/Delta bank, "floated etc.", you have to take the arresters off the pots and arm mount them. Possibility of closing in and getting a temporary backfeed that will blow up the arresters. Seen it done wrongly though and nothing happened.

Pootnaigle
11-24-2010, 01:50 PM
Kinda makes me rembember once years ago during a horrific lightening storm when a contract crew replaced a bad 120/240 pot with a 240/480 pot. Didnt check voltage just hooked er up n closed her in............. Needless to say it burnt up everthing in the house. I heard it even had to be rewired. In a kind of hi end neighborhood too. Ive heard of crews picking up the wrong pots only to discover it when they got on site........ Sounds like that would be a much better plan.

Highplains Drifter
11-24-2010, 09:57 PM
Kinda makes me rembember once years ago during a horrific lightening storm when a contract crew replaced a bad 120/240 pot with a 240/480 pot. Didnt check voltage just hooked er up n closed her in............. Needless to say it burnt up everthing in the house. I heard it even had to be rewired. In a kind of hi end neighborhood too. Ive heard of crews picking up the wrong pots only to discover it when they got on site........ Sounds like that would be a much better plan.


Yes Poot you remember the contract boys hanging the wrong pot, just like I seen and remember the finest of the power company do the same thing. Depends on the side of the fence you are looking from.

Pootnaigle
11-24-2010, 10:29 PM
Yes Poot you remember the contract boys hanging the wrong pot, just like I seen and remember the finest of the power company do the same thing. Depends on the side of the fence you are looking from.
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Power to the People! Drifter

I have worked both sides and when its all over and done we were all linemen. I didnt mean to imply that it could only happen to a contractor.I wuz merely saying that the numbering system Door mentioned might help prevent that.

MI-Lineman
11-24-2010, 11:35 PM
It happens on both sides! Should hang'em by their nuts for bein that stupid but it happens!:( Should be checkin the tags before they even leave the shop!