Since we are talking about the poco's:
July 3, 2002, the area is in the grasp of a heat wave. Power at my house goes off, along with ten (10) other houses. I call the poco at 8:00PM, the service rep states "service will be restored by 6:10AM" (Jult 4th). I hear the truck at 6:00AM, & go out to talk to the crew. The OL on the xfr was tripped. They reset it, and said "if it held all day yesterday, you should be ok". They also said it was a 25KVA pot. Well it tripped at 8:45AM. A few more calls by me & the neighbors, they came back & reset it again. It lasted 25min. Calling again, we were assured it will be corrected. They came back at 4:00PM July 4th & put in a 50 KVA pot.
So far, so good.
Point is, 11 houses, ranging from 3BR ranches, to 5BR haciendas on 1 pot?? It may have worked when all the houses were "small, no one had CA, pools, & were primarily "summer homes"; but now, year round, fully loaded homes. Go Figure
PS: It's a waterfront neighborhood (lagoons) at the Jersey Shore. I'm not bashing the line crews, they work/worked there butts off, but the engineering dept of GPU/JCP&L leaves a lot to be desired.
John
