ECN Forum Forums General Topics of the Trade General Discussion Area Residential 3 Phase, Why / Why Not?

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"Of course, in my case the biggest problem the POCO would have is keeping me out of the SCADA system!! I love to watch air break switches in action! "

Which is exactly why I've never let our company's SCADA system get incorporated into the company LAN.

In all seriousness, I hope you would never let an "urge" endanger a linemans' life.

Oops, I hit a landmine with that one. Let me clarify that to mean in the context of it being a substation serving ONLY my own house, like the Dell dudes'.

Some years ago in the Air Force I took the lineman's CDC (Career Developement Course) and exams to see how I'd fare. Passed with score of 86.

I had actually considered becoming a lineman, but I didn't because I can't stand heights. (Makes climbing and bucket work impractical.)

Working around high voltage doesn't really bother me (I did make contact with a live 12kv padmount switch, wearing all appropriate PPE thanks to a really cool foreman I knew), and have a facination with power equipment in general. I told the foreman, half-joking, that if I came upon a transformer fire, I'd probably bring out the hot dogs and 'smores.

Seriously, I've also been too close to some rather violent equipment failures to actually try such a thing. My very first encounter was when a pole-mount tx got hit by lightning as I rode by on my bicycle. My friend and I both got knocked on our little butts and had nightmares for weeks. I was around 7.