I was recently reviewing the ratings of aluminum bus in one of our open-air substations. Our bus is 12.47kV nominal (15kV rated insulation).
I stumbled upon the Aluminum Electrical Conductor Handbook . It's waaay more than you'll ever need, but probably worth browsing through or having on...
I re-read my own post, it's not clear, I meant to say that this was all a desktop demonstration. So the "high voltage three-phase power lines" were not really high voltage at all. I didn't have a chance to measure the "high voltage lines" so I'm not sure what voltage they were actually using...
Long time reader, first time poster.
Awhile back I worked at an investor-owned utility that put on annual transformer connections training. They taught us all the different ways we might wire up a pole-mounted distribution transformer bank.
They actually had gone so far as to build a small...
