Electrical Meter on Street Light Pole
 

Every house has an electrical meter. So why did the electric company
install one on a light pole?

Electrical Meter on Street Light Pole
 

wrote:
Every house has an electrical meter. So why did the electric company
install one on a light pole?

Most of the time I see them they are monitoring the power consumed by cable
television distribution equipment.

--
John McGaw
[Knoxville, TN, USA]
http://johnmcgaw.com

Electrical Meter on Street Light Pole
 

Electrical Meter on Street Light Pole
 

John McGaw wrote:

wrote:
Every house has an electrical meter. So why did the electric company
install one on a light pole?

Most of the time I see them they are monitoring the power consumed by cable
television distribution equipment.

CATV power supplies, or sometimes feeding traffic signal controls,
possibly sewer pumping stations.

Electrical Meter on Street Light Pole
 

On Mar 8, 7:03*pm, wrote:
Every house has an electrical meter. So why did the electric company
install one on a light pole?

On a rare occasion, if the site is at the border of two electric
companies that have a large price differential, a consumer might do
that to put the point of service (the meter) inside of one territory
and then a line into the house (or whatever) that in the other
territory. But it's pretty rare.

Electrical Meter on Street Light Pole
 

On Mar 8, 7:03�pm, wrote:
Every house has an electrical meter. So why did the electric company
install one on a light pole?

perhaps it goes to a underground feed, to things like a sewage lift
pump?

we have one of those in our neighborhood. just a manhole and a pole.

made me curious too....