At least that's what we called it when we had to work on em!!
Is anybody still hooking up Cap banks the old way?
As in hanging the bank, and then running a span (or more) of 120V secondary for control voltage for it.........That's the way we did for umpteen years........
Most of new Cap banks I'm seeing that are being put up, all have 4 fused switches and a small 3/4KVA (.75KVA) pot built right on the rack with the caps.....seems like it would be less work, but might be confusing to some of the apes coming up, if they don't pay attention.........
I guess everything is changing too, seeing more and more stuff done now that we never used to do............
Like having a UG Dip on a pot pole, with 2 switches on the same pole.........
Like pulling a single phase lateral off of a pot pole, and hanging the fuse switch for the lateral on the same pole, by the pot switch, we used to do it, but we put the lateral switch on the first pole off the take-off.....to avoid confusion, and keep somebody from opening the wrong switch and getting hurt.........gotta keep your head screwed on...all the time!!!
Guess I'm just thinking about random stuff.........shoulder is acting up, hurting like a bitch, and the pills haven't kicked in and I can't sleep!!!
See what you young hands have got to look forward to after hookin for 35-40 years.......and you're wore out and broke down!!!!!