On 3 Sep 2015 09:31:25 GMT, Huge wrote:



S'what we're on. If you follow our 2 wire overhead a couple of miles (it
runs alongside a favourite bridle way) it goes through some switchgear
(operable from the ground, although padlocked) and then connects to two
of the three phases of a three phase line.

My memory might have got it wrong but I think I was told by an
electricity board employee that type of switch wasn't designed to be
operated under load but was operated when the line was dead and was
for isolation of that spur after which the power on the feed was
restored.This came up in a conversation about 45 years ago when some
friends and I were caught by said employee who just happened to be
passing at the time when my friends and I were lexamining the padlock
for the isolator that controlled the feed to our school.
Of course it was possible he deliberately misinformed us to
discourage us doing it later.


G.Harman