| reply to guitarzan
Re: A BPL test In theory, your main breaker would fail, saving your house.
The wiring of BPL *should* use a much lower guage wire to step down from behind your transformer to your home wire. That will offer some protection, dont know how much tho. |
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| said by Its Me Again:
In theory, your main breaker would fail, saving your house.
The wiring of BPL *should* use a much lower guage wire to step down from behind your transformer to your home wire. That will offer some protection, dont know how much tho.
Mechanical breakers can't react quick enough and lower wire guage won't help as it would deliver the high voltage with enough current capacity to destroy anything connected to it.
However, personally I think the danger from bridge failures is not much to be concerned with. I think failures will be few and far between and if BPL ever takes off, it will be using a wireless last 100 feet (like Amperion) or be just on the low voltage side (like Motorola). |
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| Still isnt any worse than lighting. Heck, never was concerned about that growing up, would be concerned about this.
We use to replace our blown fuses with pennies just to overcome the hassles of tracking down a reason it blew. On hindsight, we were lucky nothing happened.;) |
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| said by Its Me Again:
Still isnt any worse than lighting. Heck, never was concerned about that growing up, would be concerned about this.
We use to replace our blown fuses with pennies just to overcome the hassles of tracking down a reason it blew. On hindsight, we were lucky nothing happened.;)
LOL I remember those days  I agree with your hindsight observation. |
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