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Electrical problem:
It may have been the wind storms, but just to be sure, I thought I'd ask your opinion... I just had the service wires to my property blow off the pole in a shower of fireworks!
I am running 20 lamps with two 5 ton AC's in a sealed room with associated water chiller, fans, air/water pumps, etc. Everything I have designed has been done by a qualified electrician to standards well exceeding the local codes. He tells me that I could run almost twice the load because of the two legs from my service. Is this true?
Even though everything I am doing is totally compliant with the law, I would like to avoid the possible headache by making sure this does not happen again... provided what happened is my fault. The sparks caused someone to call 911, which had the fire and police dep. to come hang out with me (great!).
The guy from the power company said that if I was pulling more than 200 amps, that the entire power line (from meter to pole) would be uniformly melted. There was a previous patch to the line near the pole, and the line was somewhat melted between the patch and the pole. Any ideas?
It may have been the wind storms, but just to be sure, I thought I'd ask your opinion... I just had the service wires to my property blow off the pole in a shower of fireworks!
I am running 20 lamps with two 5 ton AC's in a sealed room with associated water chiller, fans, air/water pumps, etc. Everything I have designed has been done by a qualified electrician to standards well exceeding the local codes. He tells me that I could run almost twice the load because of the two legs from my service. Is this true?
Even though everything I am doing is totally compliant with the law, I would like to avoid the possible headache by making sure this does not happen again... provided what happened is my fault. The sparks caused someone to call 911, which had the fire and police dep. to come hang out with me (great!).
The guy from the power company said that if I was pulling more than 200 amps, that the entire power line (from meter to pole) would be uniformly melted. There was a previous patch to the line near the pole, and the line was somewhat melted between the patch and the pole. Any ideas?