Argonne
Gold Member
- Joined
- May 21, 2005
- Messages
- 279
- Location
- Paris, TX
- Tractor
- JD2210, Ford 4400, Case IH 685, Terramite T7, JD 6x4 M-Gator
Today I'm out working on my gate opener by the road, enjoying the balmy 108 deg F weather, and I look up and see this new radome looking "thingy" up on the pole. That pole is carrying, what I assume to be, 3 phase 13kv power along the state highway. That tapper on the left phase is the one that feeds my property, but it's hundreds of feet to the nearest step-down transformer, so if that thing, whatever it is, is powered, it must be running on 13kv or solar or inductive coupling.
It doesn't matter what it is, but it has me curious. It must belong to the power company (TNMP) because it's up a their pole level, and for sure no-one else would want to be servicing that thing.
Collectively, we at TBN know everything worth knowing, so lead me, what the heck is that thing, and how is it powered?
It doesn't matter what it is, but it has me curious. It must belong to the power company (TNMP) because it's up a their pole level, and for sure no-one else would want to be servicing that thing.
Collectively, we at TBN know everything worth knowing, so lead me, what the heck is that thing, and how is it powered?