On Sun, 05 Jul 2009 22:28:24 -0700, the infamous Gunner Asch
scrawled the following:

On Sun, 05 Jul 2009 20:43:45 -0700, Larry Jaques
wrote:

RCM only

On Sun, 05 Jul 2009 13:48:20 -0700, the infamous Gunner Asch
scrawled the following:

On Sun, 5 Jul 2009 12:11:31 -0400, "Rich." wrote:

It is not regular practice to inform the owner, unless something is found to
be wrong. Having 245v in the building is not normal


Its VERY normal in California..at least in the LA area.

U.S. electricity is supplied at 120v, single phase, and 240v, dual
phase, nominal voltages.

Yet 245 is quite normal in many Southern California shops.

It all has to do with transformer loading if what the pole climbers
I've talked to have any knowledge of it. I talked to the guy on
the ground while the monkey played in the wires when they replaced the
broken 17kv line to my house a couple years ago. They bump the xfmr a
bit to handle larger loads, so when the load isn't there, your
household voltage can be up to 10v higher. The larger the area the
xfmr covers, the wider the voltage fluctuation will be. They aim for
sub-5% swings, but...

I have a dedicated xfmr on the pole outside. It's putting out 118.8v /
237.5v this morning.

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