[AMRadio] 220 vac line

[BILL GUYGER]

OK, just throwing out possibilities...  I don't doubt your measuring ability for 
one second, and I expect that you like most of the guys on this list have been 
around the block a time or two and  wasn't trying to talk down to you. If that 
is how you perceived it, I apologize.  I just get curious about voltages and the 
like that are out of the norm and start thinking of what if's.

I too have seen line voltages that run high constantly, my pet theory is that 
the power companies own major stock in light bulb manufacturing companies. Just 
joking.....or am I? It would be a subtle way to make incandescent lamps burn out 
slightly faster.

Bill




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From: rbethman <rbethman at comcast.net>
To: Discussion of AM Radio in the Amateur Service <amradio at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Tue, July 26, 2011 4:52:10 PM
Subject: Re: [AMRadio] 220 vac line

Bill - I do know what they look like!  However, ALL this entire 
community is UNDERGROUND with ground "surface" mounted transformers.

Absolutely NONE of them have the gauge that you describe, AND that I am 
used to seeing on pole mounted above ground systems.

The ONLY place that would have such is a few miles away where the 
substation is located.

Bob - N0DGN

On 7/26/2011 5:36 PM, BILL GUYGER wrote:
> The power companies will sometime tap the transformers up a bit to 
> compensate for voltage drop in times of high load. Alternately there 
> are regulators on the high voltage primary feeders that look like 
> large pole pigs which are basically autotransformers with some 
> rudimentary logic so that they can keep the line with in +/- so many 
> percent. You can tell them by the large guage like device on the side 
> that indicates where they are set at the moment and the limits they 
> have been at. Your elevated line voltage is not THAT rare but not 
> perfect either................. but then again what is now days? Bill 
> AD5OL

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> From: rbethman <rbethman at comcast.net> To: Discussion of AM Radio in 
> the Amateur Service <amradio at mailman.qth.net> Sent: Tue, July 26, 2011 
> 9:30:24 AM Subject: Re: [AMRadio] 220 vac line Believe me - I've used 
> every type of meter, to include one Weston direct reading panel meter, 
> a TS-505D/U, a brand new Digital MM - NON Harbor Freight, and 
> oscilloscope! We've had this issue for almost as long as I've lived 
> here for the last 23 years.  Everything in this part of the city is 
> underground. ALL the utilities are their own quirky selves! I put a 
> pressure gauge on the little goose neck that you put the shower head 
> on.  I'm in a split level Foyer type construction.  The shower head I 
> chose is the highest in the house. I got 130PSI. So immediately put in 
> a pressure reducing valve in the main line from the street. This city 
> of less than 160,000 has expanded a LOT since I moved here after 
> retiring from Uncle Sam's Employ. They have been getting around the 
> "issues" by pushing Voltage, and water pressure, in lieu of upgrades 
> to account for the heavier use! So when I tell you the voltage, please 
> don't take me for "intellectually" challenged.  I'm one whom worked 
> Power Production and Distribution while in Uncle Sam's Employ.  To 
> include a very intense course on Nuclear Power.  The have even board 
> certified us. It is what it reads. Bob - N0DGN 
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