On Mon, 20 Mar 2017 15:07:32 +0000, The Natural Philosopher
wrote:

On 20/03/17 13:35, The Other Mike wrote:
On Mon, 20 Mar 2017 13:23:21 GMT, Harry Bloomfield
wrote:

The Natural Philosopher explained on 20/03/2017 :
Not only is 3.3kV used in the UK, but 2kV, 3.5kV and 6.6kV are also used.

No. Were used. Once. Not any more.

Were used, suggests were installed. Once installed they are there until
replaced - which rather suggests I was correct in the matter of the
3.3Kv, though wrong in regards to what they installed on wooden poles.

Harry you'd be better off arguing with a three week old dead badger, you'd get a
more coherent and accurate reply on subjects like this than from TNP. 3.3kV
has IME always been an underground voltage in the UK, with indoor switchgear.

Proof by assertion?

Better than your profuse verbal ******** as standard

11KV round here. Underground. Watched em put in in

600kV 400kV 275kV 66kV, 33kV 11kV 3.3kV 415v around here there and everywhere in
the UK. Involved in the design, operation and maintenance. Watched them put it
in over many decades not as an uniformed casual observer from behind a barrier.
No doubt some of those voltage levels will confuse the **** out of you. Feel
free to behave like demented chicken.

I can find no mention of 3.3KV grid ANYWHERE at all.

That's because you somehow think everything is on the internet. It's not.

It's used primarily for motors and as an intermediate voltage in power
stations. Never for any distance transmission.

No one said it was used for 'distance transmission' whatever the **** that
means. It's a distribution voltage used for short distance lightly loaded
undergrounds at many locations in the UK.

i.e. NOT as part of the grid.

If you maintain 11kV is 'part of the grid' as you have just done in a reply to
Harry B elsewhere then the 3.3kV network running a mile from the 33kV/11kV/3.3kV
substation to a brick bunker with a transformer, a bit of switchgear and fusing
is also 'part of the grid' that you have never seen nor heard of this
configuration is no real surprise as it's not on the internet.



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