Been noticing down here in Florida. Utility companies installing ‘breakers’ in residential transformer feeds from the higher voltage lines. Maybe it’s to prevent fires when a transformer goes awol. But in reality it is getting tripped quite frequently and results in an hour to two hour outage, until the utility deems you deserve to be reconnected. It’s not at the meter, it’s hanging high on the pole, in plain sight.
And we saw Enron and how they manipulated the rolling blackouts.
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/enron-caused-california-blackouts-traders-say
I’m not certain to what you’re referring to, but every distribution transformer should be protected by a fused cutout.
Wedge connector, srittup, hot line clamp, with a lead to the top of the cutout, paralleled with a lead to a lightning arrester.
Breakers are a good idea...if they’re as reliable as the fuses still in use here.
Problem is that squirrels tend to cause the fuses to blow.
Same result (”hour to two hour outage”).
Invest in lineman climbing spikes; you might need them.
https://www.jharlen.com/p-10068-klein-hydra-cool-pole-climbing-system-221486.aspx
Notices that too, here in Panama City. Every time a storm blows through the electricity goes out, and the power company takes a few hours to reset the line breakers.
I’ve got a few generator companies comping today and tomorrow out to provide quotes. Putting in a 1800rpm diesel 30kw system. The electricity system here is far too unreliable. We also rely on it for sewer lift pumps, so having power out for 8 hours is not acceptable.
“...until the utility deems you deserve to be reconnected.”
We’re at the end of a dead-end road, and the end of the electrical power, so we’re the LAST ones they fix in an outage, anyway.
More than enough reason for our own generator. ;)
P.S. Let’s Go, Brandon!