No offense, Stormin, but the fact that you even have to ask such a Q means you have no effing clue about electricity, and thus you proly should not be fooling around with stuff that runs on electricity.
Proly missionary work is more your aptitude....
I've got a client looking to buy 50 - 100 acres with access to 440 3 phase electricity. Question 1 - is this a heavy electric capacity? 2 - How does o ne figure this information out. There are power poles that traverse the fro ntage of the property. There are 4 wires total on the poles. One of the pol es has 3 transformers on it. Any idea?
480v will usually be wye distribution and that is 277v to ground. You will need a transformer to get 120/240 but they are readily available. That is generally considered a "heavy" service
The four wires on the pole are 3 phase power + neutral. If the 3 cans on the pole are indeed step-down transformers you will see that they supply a service to nearby customer. < they could be regulating transformers or reclosers ? > If you look for the nearest major customer supplied from the line - it might give you a starting point to ask the power company about that line's capability and connection costs. If your client is considering feeding back into the grid with his wind or solar generation - it would require some extra approvals and installation costs. John T.
se electricity. Question 1 - is this a heavy electric capacity? 2 - How doe s one figure this information out. There are power poles that traverse the frontage of the property. There are 4 wires total on the poles. One of the poles has 3 transformers on it. Any idea?
What's missing is what's the objective, eg do they need 3 phase or just
240/120 for a house. How the cost to you is determined is probably going to vary greatly depending on the policy of the local utility and their costs. A call to the power company having the distances, whether it;s to be overhead or underground, what kind of service you want, eg 300A 240/120 splitphase or 3 phase, etc should produce some numbers.
Any idea?
It may or may not be heavy usage. A small shop could have one or two machies that need it for motors. It could be a big place that has many machines. The overhead wires are usually 3 phase at 5 to 20 thousand volts . They are stepped down to whatever is needed.
You need to find out an estimate of the ammount of power the client will use and see if the power company will furnish you that much of three phase power.
Very disturbing post as Stormin died on a roof 2 years ago and cannot reply.
Yea, I never look at the dates. See that was written over 7 years ago.
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