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Andrew Zonenberg
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Posting some typical north American power infrastructure in response to a discussion earlier today.

This pole is in a downtown area and is mixed transmission, distribution, and communications.

Top lines with largest spacing are transmission, feeding to a substation the next block over. Probably 100+ kV.

The ones on the cross arm are distribution, probably around 10 kV. Both 3 sets are 3 phase.

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Andrew Zonenberg · 1w
A few poles down the street the transmission has gone in a different direction and we see typical major street pole layout. This pole has three primary phases at teh top on trh cross arm, with the leftmost phase connected to a single phase side line driving a pole transformer across the street. The...
Richard "RichiH" Hartmann · 1w
nostr:nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnyd968gmewwp6kyqpqqv5atqz9k9c54q8c28kra6sfata0wk7w7x5gkrnde8vmxe5gt00q8mmv7s and that is why they teach you to hop away on one foot in case you hit a pole