Working on this lot must be fun!

"Hello, Indian Gas? Is that Mrs Muttergee? I want a meter changed from one end of a shop to the other end, and....
"Sorry, caller, you have the wrong department, please ring Shanghai Electric Supply Co on 0800.....[click].

Alan

Looks like you'd need a dentist's probe to pick apart some of those wires.

Let's see....I have the green wire and the black wire...the blue and orange go to my neighbour across the street....no wait. I have green and blue. He has orange and black..or is it green and orange?

*BBBZZZZZZZTTTTT*

Are those tricycles hanging on the lines in the last pic????

Looks like many of those wires have been cut from illegal taps and just left hanging on the pole, hence the shag carpet look.

The bright spot in this is that there still is a place on Earth without meth-heads and scrapyards.

Sure makes me appreciate the U.S.A. and the standards that we abide by every day.

No, the trikes are hanging from the awning.

Evidence of a SEVERE rat tap infestation.

Power it down and get to toning the tappers.

LMAO Scott...

Looks like the wiring does the fusing as well.
Not many fuses visible on those crossarms.
Need to see some piccies when it rains, There are bound to be smoking or fizzeling connections.

I don't see any transformers up there, unless they're buried in all those wires, but there are some larger insulators. What kind of voltages are running around in that mess?

Mike (mamills)

As near as I can tell (no information with the pics) this appears to be India, or perhaps one of India's nearby neighbors (Bangladesh, Pakistan, etc.).

The British distribution system in towns favors one large 3-ph xfmr feeding a 4-wire wye system serving a relatively large area, rather than the larger number of small xfmrs as is common in North America.

So if this was modeled (loosely!) on the British system, there's probably one big transformer somewhere in the neighborhood and it's likely to be anything from 220/380 to 250/433V wye on those poles, probably no HV, but who can tell in that mess? (It looks as though there is telephone wiring in there as well.)

I heard that at least up until a few years ago some towns in India still had their old 3-wire DC systems in use (200/400 to 250/500V), but I have no idea if that is still the case.

...And they wonder why there is a copper shortage.. Seems to all be hanging off those poles!.

Hmm.. " Shortage"... Guess you could call all that mess one big short circuit just waiting to happen

A.D

holy *%@#

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I thought maybe some power company engineer specified separate neutrals because he didn't like multiwire circuits, and this was the result

I'd love to see some copper thieves try to lift that stuff.....

PLEASE! Make my day!

Scott,

LMAO

Roger

The actual streetlight looks quite modern too me.
We use the same type in Auckland.
Glad we have certain standards in place, although we have some messy poles about.

I keep my camera handy