On Monday 16 July 2018 13:46:13 andy pugh wrote: > On 16 July 2018 at 16:17, Gene Heskett <[email protected]> wrote: > > That derate would exceed 50% I'd imagine. And would nominally halve > > the life of the caps. Not to mention the diode peak currents are now > > much higher. Sounds like a questionable lifetime result. Would it > > not be cheaper over the decades to buy the correct stuff, or even > > pay for a three phase service upgrade? > > When we looked in to getting 3-phase for my dad's workshop the price > was more than £20,000. ($US 26k, $CA35k, $AU36k, 10k Bahranian Dinar, > to choose one which is "bigger")
Yikes! I wonder how far they had to go to get the 3rd phase? It may not have been that far, and I wasn't counting right of way deals either. Probably under a kilometer at that quote. But it does point out construction costs per city block as being stratospheric if the poles are not already populated. Some power companies here do it as a matter of being better able to balance loads, but thats a hard sell in the board room I expect. -- Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
