Power Questions
Posted on February 1, 2011
It’s a good time to raise power related questions, as many U.S. locations are right now experience deadly weather which could result in outages.
It’s a good time to raise power related questions, as many U.S. locations are right now experience deadly weather which could result in outages.
Several years ago we had a killer ice storm which dribbled late into the night at ground temperature of about 30-degrees, and besides trees toppling from ice weight, power transformers blew up. Skip ahead to the present, and after a whole day of rain at 29-degrees there are surprisingly few outages being reported on the utility website. Now the rain has turned to sleet.
Question: what is it about freezing rain that causes a power transformer to explode?
Why is sleet any different from rain as far as the transformers are concerned?
Another utility resource, the gas company, reports it is also ready for outages. What would cause a gas outage?
