Proximity to overhead lines?

[garrywatters]

Role on Monday and I get rid of this damn laptop for an older one that doesn't need Widows 8 to work.

Get a mac Tony.

 

[Knobhead]

I've got a raincoat, that would be better than this bloody thing.

 

[Engineer54]

Next time you're in the UK have a trip to Mansfield. Go in on the Sutton road. Look to you're right and........... You and I know there's never fixed rules. On LV, is neutral always at the top? Some locations have special requirements / dispensation due to environmental conditions that rule that situation out. Sorry for the long paragraph, new laptop and "Enter" won't give a line break on this forum.

Dispensations i can accept, as you say these things always crop up. But generally MV overhead sub-distribution lines will be run in a horizontal order!! As for overhead LV, the neutral is generally at the bottom, rather than at the top. Especially in the case when street lighting is taken directly from the overhead lines, via an extra timed phase lighting line, and using the common neutral!!


Question, ....Do they still allow MV and LV overhead lines to be run on the same wooden poles?? I did hear they were phasing this out, and that no new installations of this type were being installed.

 

[UKMeterman]

I know of a few places in Oxfordshire where there is some MV that is vertical, makes it easier to turn a sharp bend

 

[Knobhead]

There were a few places in the Peak District where MV & LV shared the same pole. Don't know if they're still there. The mention of another set of poles would have the Peak Park Planning Board throwing a hissy fit. I wanted an 11KV OH line put in. Gave up and installed a DG set, it was easier.

 

[Knobhead]

We had to hide the DG set in an old water mill. Anything you wanted to do you had the PPPB on you're back. Painting you're windows could land you in court. And did!

 

[Engineer54]

There were a few places in the Peak District where MV & LV shared the same pole. Don't know if they're still there. The mention of another set of poles would have the Peak Park Planning Board throwing a hissy fit. I wanted an 11KV OH line put in. Gave up and installed a DG set, it was easier.

Quite common to see this in Cyprus, (more so in the rural areas) and a good few other countries too. It can get a bit congested where pole transformers come in to play, especially when there is also an under ground MV SWA cable coming up the pole to feed another overhead string some distance away!! lol!!

 

[Knobhead]

From what I saw in north Africa, they could get anything up a pole. Except me! I'm just mad, not suicidal!