I once placed a node ped at a High School and spliced in a underground EOL tap.. Bonded it.. attached the tap to the housing mount of the ped
700tx in conduit.. shrinked the boot.. closed the ped and left location.. 3 hours later I get a page from the prime to return to the school..
I showed up and there were more firetrucks,power & cable officials there then you would see at a free beer & rib's party
The side of the school was burnt black and the node ped was gone.. burnt hole in the ground.. they only found blobs of the tap & a blown apart ground rod at the location.
the conduit and coax was burnt some 20' back into the ground.. and a CATV outage had 3000 customers out, all the actives were blown.. tar dripping out when the covers were opened.. cable jacket melted and left long runners hanging to the ground .. some coax blew open.. foam popcorn ( like a Lighting Hit) all down the run.
taps melted.. just bare rg6 to the houses.. who knows what insides went thru.. 4 days of a rebuild & resplice, had to re-trench underground,
Virginia was doing pole transfers on high tension lines 3 miles up the road... and admitted to dropping a live 72kva line onto cable but thought it tripped the fuse before it did any damage.. it took 4 days before a manager came foreword and told what happened
A fire chief interviewed a school kid that was close when the ped burnt up and he said it was like a 4th of july firework display
later the fire chief told me I was lucky to have been done & gone..
I could have been a pile of blob along with the tap & ped
Re: unballanced load
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Registered: 10/5/2008
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mid 70s
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