EDC XIII Which knife or knives are you carrying today?

I thought it was maybe time to bust out an oldie and goodie :
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Dcdavis said:
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OK, you've piqued my curiosity, DC, as I'm only "carpenter familiar" with residential electrical components. What's pictured seems high voltage, commercial grade--maybe neutral side busses? :confused:

The knife I know, of course, and I'm glad to see you hung onto your PJ Inkosingo. It's such a great knife and you might have just gotten me to carry mine again as we head over the RI line today to see our son and GF's new house that they bought and just moved into. :D
 
Shorttime said:
2 gauge?! Oof. Good luck, to ya!
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Haha. Thank ya. Parallel 2/0 coming in on the primary side and parallel 3/0 on the secondary side. Got several parallel 350mcm pulls coming up soon:eek: Thats where I’ll need some luck

ChazzyP said:
OK, you've piqued my curiosity, DC, as I'm only "carpenter familiar" with residential electrical components. What's pictured seems high voltage, commercial grade--maybe neutral side busses? :confused:

The knife I know, of course, and I'm glad to see you hung onto your PJ Inkosingo. It's such a great knife and you might have just gotten me to carry mine again as we head over the RI line today to see our son and GF's new house that they bought and just moved into. :D
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It’s Saturday and we’re the only ones working here today so it’s a little more laid back of a day. It is the inside of a three phase 277/480v to 120/208v transformer. Basically we have a 277/480 three phase service coming into the building. Not everything inside here can run off of that voltage so you have to set transformers to step the power down to 120/208. Most residential services are 120/240 single phase. It may sound complicated or confusing but it’s really not. Basically if they want to use standard 120volt receptacles for drills, chargers, computers, fans etc we have to set separate panels with that voltage which the transformer produces. All the different voltages and phases are color coded. Now when I look at a big chopped up roof on a house, I wouldn’t know where to start.

Yea I’m glad I kept it also. It was my first Inkosi and insingo. It has snail trails galore all over it. There’s some good pics of it over in the well worn/weathered CRKs thread.

Hope that info clears it up a little. Have a good trip and visit.
 
Dcdavis said:
Haha. Thank ya. Parallel 2/0 coming in on the primary side and parallel 3/0 on the secondary side. Got several parallel 350mcm pulls coming up soon:eek: Thats where I’ll need some luck


It’s Saturday and we’re the only ones working here today so it’s a little more laid back of a day. It is the inside of a three phase 277/480v to 120/208v transformer. Basically we have a 277/480 three phase service coming into the building. Not everything inside here can run off of that voltage so you have to set transformers to step the power down to 120/208. Most residential services are 120/240 single phase. It may sound complicated or confusing but it’s really not. Basically if they want to use standard 120volt receptacles for drills, chargers, computers, fans etc we have to set separate panels with that voltage which the transformer produces. All the different voltages and phases are color coded. Now when I look at a big chopped up roof on a house, I wouldn’t know where to start.

Yea I’m glad I kept it also. It was my first Inkosi and insingo. It has snail trails galore all over it. There’s some good pics of it over in the well worn/weathered CRKs thread.

Hope that info clears it up a little. Have a good trip and visit.
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That was an excellent explanation. Just enough for the understanding, but not so much that it's confusing.

Largest pull I've ever been involved in was 150 feet of 250 mcm. Contractor brought a truck-mounted tugger, and lots of wire lube.
 
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