Perfectly safe, as long as you don't go anywhere near it.
India, presumably, going by the partly-obscured "TELEPHONE" sign and pre-harmonisation Brit 3-phase wiring colours.
Or Pakistan. [Googles]. No, you're right, it's India. The Telephone sign is in Hindi.
joy.... how is their nuclear programme going these days?
Jim K
Is the photo (hopefully!) giving a false impression of how close that is to the ground? I see some strands of barbed wire(?) which would only be worth having if they stopped people climbing up.
I don't think so. Look at the seats on the chairs, the camera height can't be much above them. The bare terminals might be 2m above the ground?
I guess the HT connections are on the other side of the transformer, so maybe 3m above ground level?
Maybe it's isolated for work and there is normally some covering. I see there is what looks like a laddered chair at the back.
SteveW
I agree - as it happens I was in India myself a few weeks ago, and was sufficiently impressed with the incoming electrics at one place we stayed, to record for posterity:
These were taken at ground level, and there was absolutely nothing to prevent anybody getting right up close. Couldn't understand how this lot works when it rains? (And when it rains out there, it RAINS)
David
Wasn't it Prince Philip who once said, as only he can..
"Looks like an Indian electrician did that"
When observing some dodgy workmanship;?..
It is to tangle them up in their death throes so they know who done it.
On the bright side, it must be so much easier to work on than if it were stuck at the top of a pylon ;-)
(wonder if one could locate it in google earth?)
ISTM there are many other benefits: easy access for jump leads to the tuktuk; infrastructure ready should electric vehicles take off; Darwinian selection;.......
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Wouldn't like to be too close when that rotten crossmember gives way in the first pic.
Was that live? The devices fixed to the crossmember in the first pic (the HT side) look like they could be fuseholders, and the fuses are absent.
Looks like the second pic shows the LT side. I like the way someone's tapped off it with a bit of black flex or T&E - on the unfused side!
cheers for those. Added to my collection of wiring horrors :)
Lots of interesting pictures in Jeffl!
Bill
It could be Solihull...
Bill
Look closer ... someone has wound some wire between the fuse holder terminals.
En el artículo , Andy Burns escribió:
eep. So they have!
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Sure are.
The Beirut Telco ones are hilarious:
The interesting thing is that the upper assembly (all 6 insulators) looks a bit like it used to be an isolator assembly - the sort you use a long pole to ping open or closed - they would have had some metal gubbings in the middle and probably an insulated linkage across the bottom to operate them as a single unit.
Still - at least the assembly is fused now...
I thought there ought to be a cover, but I can't see any attachment points.
Colin Bignell
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