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Old 16th May 2018, 7:02 pm   #36
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Default Re: European voltage in the UK?

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Originally Posted by Bookman View Post
The vast majority of transformers in our distribution substations will be configured such that 2 transformers will be provided but that each transformer will have the capacity to supply the total needs of that particular substation.
Here there's only a single 'header' 33/11Kv transformer [OK it's a big one] and I'm last-man-on-the-end of the resulting local 3ph 11Kv overhead feed. Last time there were trees-falling-related service-interruption issues (a couple of winters back during a gale) the DNO brought in a Diesel genset to supply me and a couple of nearby farms [who really urgently needed power for their milking-machines] for a few days until they could assign line-techs to sort out what was very much a 'low priority' case.

My "230V" supply generally sits at around 235V as seen on one presentation-phase.
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