Ding, ding, ding...we have a winner! That's exactly right Jim, I had lost a
"leg" was the way the guy from the power company put it. At the time we
moved in we had been having a protracted drought. At some point one of the
line going to my house (underground) was damaged but since the water table
was low it didn't matter. When the rains returned it shorted out. For that
one night they installed a splitter to feed the house from one leg. They
came back the next day and installed a new line. As my Mom used to say "you
can't live and stay dumb".
Charlie
On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 3:38 PM, Jim Nichols <jhnichols@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:
> Charlie,
>
> Don't laugh. It sounds like one of the two voltage feeds became
> disconnected, for whatever reason. Since lighting circuits are connected
> from a "hot" buss to the ground, and the load is usually distributed to the
> two feeds evenly, then, yes, you can loose half your lighting power.
>
> Jim Nichols
> Tullahoma, TN USA
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Charles Geilfuss" <charles.geilfuss@xxxxxxxxx>
> To: "Olympus Camera Discussion" <olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Thursday, February 25, 2010 2:06 PM
> Subject: Re: [OM] Purchase of new camera case successful
>
>
> > All this talk of electricity reminds me of something that happened to me
> > about 10 years ago. Now mind you I know little about electricity...make a
> > circuit, series, parallel...that's about it. We had just moved into a new
> > house and one night around 9 pm half the lights went out; a few rooms
> > downstairs and a few rooms upstairs and on opposite sides of the house.
> > What
> > the heck? I checked the breaker box and nothing had tripped. I called the
> > builder at home and he had no idea either (I should have known better). I
> > called the power company and they showed up about an hour later. I met
> > them
> > in the yard and asked how the hell do you lose half your power? He
> > chuckled
> > and said...
> >
> > Charlie
> >
> > On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 2:15 PM, Ken Norton <ken@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> >> >
> >> > You're a funny guy. When I was in broadcasting, we would have power
> >> > problems, and call the electric company. Because of our business and
> >> > electricity use, they would usually look into things, but the final
> >> answer
> >> > was almost always, You have to take what you get.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> The biggest problem broadcasters face with electrical power is proper
> >> earth-grounding. In some areas of the country, you can be as far away as
> >> seven miles from the nearest electrical earth ground. Grounding an
> >> antenna
> >> is one thing, because you create your own ground field that had to only
> >> be
> >> a
> >> certain size in relation to the wavelength of the broadcasted signal.
> But
> >> for electrical power as well as static drainage, you need to be able to
> >> essentially get into the conductive soils. In parts of this world, there
> >> are
> >> no conductive soils suitable for static drainage. Because you can't get
> >> the
> >> tower to drain static properly, it becomes a lightning magnet.
> >>
> >> This is a huge problem in areas of coal mining. For some reason the
> >> ground
> >> in these areas is antithetical to static drainage. A lightning strike
> can
> >> travel literally miles underground before eventually finding its way to
> >> earth ground. A problem that the coal mining industry has fought
> forever.
> >>
> >> AG
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