Yes, you have my sympathy here, although under the circumstances you are describing your only plagued by thumpety-thumps of your own making. Occupiers of this house get treated the the thumpety-thumps of every vehicle that passes by.
Here they have a habit of placing wide speed humps so that the "down" side of them is adjacent to a gulley grid, this means every vehicle hammers on the grid and they sink ...
Fuck 'em - Weld it to its frame.
Because it costs more. Much easier to just turn the mains off when the water level is ankle deep.
do bear in mind this is aimed at very flood prone
Still easier to turn the mains off when the water level rises.
On poles. Ours has the 11KV line on the top of the pole and the 4 wire 3 phase lines running at a lower level. With the transformers mounted well up on the poles as well.
Americans call their pole mounted transformers pole pigs.
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Yes as maybe if the house is flooded then fine but the main idea is to prevent damage under storm conditions all that overhead in such areas is very vulnerable due to damage such as blown trees etc. Look at the last few days in Northern Ireland i bet all that damage is to overhead plant!..
Well i do know of several instances around our area where an underground supply comes up then goes to overhead local distribution.
In fact we have some locations on hilltop sites all fed by overhead every bloody time the wind is up the lines are down;(..
The main idea is actually that it looks a lot better not on poles.
all that overhead in such areas is
Sure, but the downside is that you have to turn the mains off much earlier when there is flooding.
Never seen that around here.
Sure, but that?s unusual and certainly hilltop sites are easier with underground because you generally don?t get even ankle deep water that needs the mains turned off. And plenty of hilltop sites arent very suitable for underground because they often don?t have a lot of dirt over rock etc.
As cables in some places are placed underground I am seeing more frequent instances of HV cables rising up to serve a pole mounted transformer and descending again, sometimes the LV also down underground other times it goes overhead to a nearby premises. Other installations just have the HV come up for an isolation switch before going down again, the one in the link below seems to do both.
GH
Are road is undrground fed as are all the roads on this estate but the main road, about 100 metres away is pole fed.
When we had a power cut last year, due to transformer failure, the circuits were swapped over on to another transformer at the top of a pole about 300m up the main road.
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