Electrical Service Question /Concern

[Looking4new]

To Lookingfornew.............I helped my daughter build a house just off HWy 11 just a stones throw south of the MTO weigh scales between Callender and Powassen. (So just north of you I imagine) They had a nightmare dealing with Ontario Hydro with them charging ridiculous for pole installation and even my daughter having to pay to replace the pole on the rural road (not on their property) and then had service read billing charges always wrong for the first year, yep HYDRO company , Ontario's biggest boonddoggle yet.

And the premier is selling it off.
Hydro makes Ontario a bundle of money every year, maybe that is why she is selling it?
I pass the Wasi scale every time I go to North Bay. Wasi scale is the official name for it. Most of us just call it the N.Bay chicken coup.

 

[CobyRupert]

It most definitely is not related to the primary feed to the transformer.

I'm curious why it couldn't be primary feed. Granted, I don't know how you crazy Canadians do things, (politely I'm guessing ) but couldn't the transformer be like this:


...assuming transformer is center grounded, if you lost one leg of the primary wouldn't you only have one leg of the secondary?
I guess OP could always ask his neighbors if they experienced same thing.
I agree it's more likely to be a secondary problem.

Edit: Ok, I guess it's unlikely the primary would be center grounded (wye), so yes, with a delta primary you would lose both secondary legs if one primary goes out. ...but if it was....

 

[buickanddeere]

To Lookingfornew.............I helped my daughter build a house just off HWy 11 just a stones throw south of the MTO weigh scales between Callender and Powassen. (So just north of you I imagine) They had a nightmare dealing with Ontario Hydro with them charging ridiculous for pole installation and even my daughter having to pay to replace the pole on the rural road (not on their property) and then had service read billing charges always wrong for the first year, yep HYDRO company , Ontario's biggest boonddoggle yet.

Oh yes, Powassan the Capital of North Bay. Then there is Sundridge which used to be the best little town by a d@m site.
The closest I get now is taking the 400 around to 17 if I miss the ferry to South Baymouth.
There is what the public sees and hears about Ontario Hydro, hydro one and Ontario Power Generation. You should observe the disaster from the inside started by Harris and made much worse by Dalton and Wynne.

 

[buickanddeere]

I'm curious why it couldn't be primary feed. Granted, I don't know how you crazy Canadians do things, (politely I'm guessing ) but couldn't the transformer be like this:
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...assuming transformer is center grounded, if you lost one leg of the primary wouldn't you only have one leg of the secondary?
I guess OP could always ask his neighbors if they experienced same thing.
I agree it's more likely to be a secondary problem.

Edit: Ok, I guess it's unlikely the primary would be center grounded (wye), so yes, with a delta primary you would lose both secondary legs if one primary goes out. ...but if it was....

It's single phase on both the primary and secondary .
If neutral current is supposed to flow on the neutral conductor . The ground system is to only hold grounded components to near earth potential. If there is current flowing in the ground system there is something very wrong.

 

[Looking4new]

Oh yes, Powassan the Capital of North Bay. Then there is Sundridge which used to be the best little town by a d@m site.
The closest I get now is taking the 400 around to 17 if I miss the ferry to South Baymouth.
There is what the public sees and hears about Ontario Hydro, hydro one and Ontario Power Generation. You should observe the disaster from the inside started by Harris and made much worse by Dalton and Wynne.

Sundridge is called 'sunny'.
Best little town by a d@m site is Latchford.
I am 5 miles north of Sunny Sundridge, out in the boonies.

 

[buickanddeere]

Alright I was close . Last time I was through Latchford was either 1998 or 2003 iirc.

 

[Looking4new]

Alright I was close . Last time I was through Latchford was either 1998 or 2003 iirc.

I wasn't correcting to be spiteful, but just to clarify for you.
I was through there 4 weeks ago. The old dam is getting rebuilt. They've been at it all summer and I don't expect they will have it done by next summer.

 

[wawajake]

Of note : Coby's picture is the same type of transformer everyone on my street has, so we each have one delegated to us and I saw at least two wires coming out of the drum to the wires above. So us Canadians do do it the same smile!! Although the nuts and bolts on it are probably metric

 

[robstaples]

Another possibility,perhaps: if the lights that when off, could they have seriously dimmed? Low voltage could make a tungsten bulb appear to go out while still having enough voltage to make a regulated supply in a tv and sat receiver function ...with capacitor storage etc. Think back to which bulbs and how long. My $.02
Rob

 

[buickanddeere]

I wasn't correcting to be spiteful, but just to clarify for you.
I was through there 4 weeks ago. The old dam is getting rebuilt. They've been at it all summer and I don't expect they will have it done by next summer.

I wasn't intending on being huffy or insulted . I appoligize if I appeared as such.