Ill need help with this one

[reppy007]

Im just wondering if anyone can tell us more about this system,Poot, you may know and Batts most likely has worked around this system.....the old row-way transformers that used to feed St. lights,I have heard little about them and have not actually worked on any....but lineman have been sent to work them.....what is the deal on those systems,if I remember right someone said if you cut the neutral you would possibly be looking at 7200 volts....can you guys give us a short class on what exactaly is involved.

[Swamprat]

Im just wondering if anyone can tell us more about this system,Poot, you may know and Batts most likely has worked around this system.....the old row-way transformers that used to feed St. lights,I have heard little about them and have not actually worked on any....but lineman have been sent to work them.....what is the deal on those systems,if I remember right someone said if you cut the neutral you would possibly be looking at 7200 volts....can you guys give us a short class on what exactaly is involved.

Are you talkin about "Arc Circuit" Street Lighting reppy? Never heard the term..."row-away", where did you come up with that term? An Arc Circuit street light system, has no neutral.

[reppy007]

That might be it swamp,ok with no neutral,can you kind of explain how that works?

[reppy007]

guess he's making some phone calls.

[Swamprat]

That might be it swamp,ok with no neutral,can you kind of explain how that works?

Ya know reppy...It's been over 40 years man, since I've delt with Arc Circuit street Lighting. I remember replacin "Pills" in the lights, and adjustin the Tub that fed the Arc Circuit, but no. I can't explain it to ya.

As Poot said LONG time ago, when I posted a thread about Arc Circuit and it bein 6.6 amps....

"Yanno I wuz gonna try n splain an arc circuit but the harder I tryed the more confusing my words came out to be. So If ya aint never seen one ya prolly wont and( In my mind you should consider yerself lucky) And if ya have ya dint need no splainin done anyways.The long and short of it was that if a ballast failed the current on the entire circuit would always remain the same but the voltage would build up to whatever it took to burn out the pill on the pole with the failed ballast. This voltage could build up to primary voltage, Once the pill burned out the voltage dropped back down while the current remained the same (6.6 amps) and the circuit worked( with the exception of the failed ballast) once again.At no time could you determine what the voltage was nor could you depend on it remaining the same. If'n I wuz mor puter literate I wud attemp to draw a schematic n post it on here n then it wud splain itself but alas I aint. Try Googling a series arc circuit n see what ya come up wif."

Yup.
And you thought poot just talked that way NOW days. Nope, he's always talked like that.
:cool:
That post is probably....5-6 years old....At LEAST.

The internet, is a wonderful thing reppy.

[reppy007]

Thanks swamp,you did well,I think......kind of hard when your actually not seeing the real deal ,but I got the picture......your explanation was most appreciated,thanks.........yea Im a little guy:D.....I dont know how I would make it without Powerlineman.com ..once again thanks.:D