WOW arc welding in the front yard :-).

[William Danielson]

I had a Baofang UV5R set on 146.820, and an old Maxon re purposed public 
service radio tuned to a 70cm Ham freq, and a Kenwood TM281 tuned to 
146.820. None of the radios heard any of that.

But Computer speaker systems inside the house had quite the GROWLLLL 
going on. I noticed the power glitch a few times but the state was 
spraying Chloride on the roads so I dismissed the light show at first as 
a salt/chloride truck. THEN I caught the glitch and the arc at the same 
time and had a Holy STUFF moment :-).

They came out and moved some wires around that day about noon, then 
again at 7pm, and were out again yesterday to move some stuff AGAIN :-).

This is an old rotten Ceder pole line here that the Municipal power guys 
say they "inherited from Edison"....the Postmaster hit one pole North of 
me about a year ago and snapped it off...the lines never came DOWN, they 
braced it up with a truck and then replaced it with a new pole. I know 
zero about Transmission lines but I did notice that the new pole and 
crossarms were different...so the ice and wind must have been the first 
real test of their work, and it needed a bit of refinement.

I could see they put some kind of flashing devices up on the insulators 
at several locations, one on each phase, I asked them what they were and 
they said they were an indicator that showed them the trouble was 
further down the line from where the device was.

The wires that were arcing were what hook right into my transformer, 
friend in GA said his like that were 12kv and they came through and 
upgraded it all to 14kv (I do not recall exact numbers) to get more 
throughput.

Bill

On 12/29/2015 07:46 PM, Alex Fraser wrote:
> I bet that sounded cool...
>
> William Danielson wrote on 12/28/2015 1:43 PM:
>> We had some freezing rain today in 43543, and some wind. I had a few 
>> power blips....most stuff would stay on but computers shut off. I 
>> caught something out the front window out of the corner of my eye, 
>> and opened the door and HOLY COW :-).
>>
>> The power lines in front of the house were arcing phase to phase, 
>> would start on the right and move to the left, 8-10 FEET of 
>> arc....big shower of reddish orange sparks would cascade into the 
>> field across the street.
>>
>> The Village lineman pulled in the drive and had seen it from town, 
>> shut things off and went up and put up a new insulator and moved one 
>> wire away from the others some.
>>
>> Got lucky and managed to snap a half asterisk picture through the 
>> glass of the storm door.....picture does not remotely do it justice.
>>
>> http://i.imgur.com/MegKRFX.jpg
>>
>> Bill
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