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WOW!! The only way to go, just don't accidentally leave it on for an extra second, mate, you'll freeze the family! ![[Linked Image]](https://www.electrical-contractor.net/ubb/biggrin.gif)
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Only one problem I did not anticipate — just found out my new electric meter doesn’t register kilowatthours, but megawatthours {!}
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BJarney,
Hope you've got some good CT's on that installation!
We're talkin' 1:1000 ratio here.
Over here, you would have your own Tranny, most probably 5MVA, fed with either 11,22 or 33kV, but to have this sort of supply capacity, you have to live out in the sticks, mate.
And you are fed with(depending on your load)
3Phase+Neutral 16mm2, the size of the installation is judged by the size of the fusing, this is what you are charged for.
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Good point, Trumpy. There's a 115kV line only 1.3 miles to the east of here. Now, if I could just find a little extra room for my switchyard.
{There is a new casino in Las Vegas that has a 115- or 138kV loop, with a pair of 60,000kVA transformers. I can dream, can't I?
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Wow, that's some casino! I guess they must be trying to compensate for the vast areas of Nevada that have nothing to use power at all! ![[Linked Image]](https://www.electrical-contractor.net/ubb/smile.gif)
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Bjarney, I don't think I would like living next door to an installation like that, the 60Hz hum would drive me crazy, and there would be a fair bit of it, at 115kV. And apparently, some people complain(who live adjacent to EHV lines), that thier lights still go after the wall switch has been turned off!. ![[Linked Image]](https://www.electrical-contractor.net/ubb/frown.gif)
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Hey, free power! I recall reading about someone who lived right next door to a very powerful shortwave broadcast transmitter (in Switzerland, if I recall correctly). He installed suitable pickup coils around the house to get free lighting!
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I have heard that radio-tower painters work at night holding a fluorescent tube in one hand.
[What that has to do with toroidal transformers I'll never know.]
[This message has been edited by Bjarney (edited 04-09-2003).]
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