On Thu, 17 Oct 2019 23:44:28 -0400, Tom Biasi
wrote:

On 10/17/2019 4:08 PM, wrote:
My power comes from a line that is about 2000 feet long and my drop
comes from about the middle. It is just two wires, hot up high and
the neutral lower. About a month ago one of my trees took out the
neutral before my drop. Nevertheless I still had power. What gives?
Eric

Are you sure the lower one is a neutral? Do you have 220 volts available?
The top wire is 17,000 volts. The lower is the neutral. Both are tied
to a transformer that feeds my house and one across the street. The
neutral is also tied to a ground at the pole. There is at least one
pole before mine that has a wire going to ground from the neutral. And
yes, I did have 220 while the neutral wire was down. I am amazed that
the ground could work so well. Maybe it's because the ground here is
so wet.
Eric