15th February 2018
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Yup, we still have ’em. The Great Forest of Electrons.
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February 15th, 2018 at 14:53
The liquid is for heat transfer and electrical insulation. Also reduces the 60-hertz humming noise.
The best liquid to use is PCBs (polychlorinated biphenyls), but the stuff is too good and takes close to forever to break down in the environment. (There was a damn good reason for “..ashes to ashes..”) So if you open up an old transformer and the oil looks like crap, it’s probably OK, but if it looks brand new, it’s bad stuff.
Doing some permitting work in New Jersey, it turns out they have a “Pole Erection Fee” for the pole with a meter that you set up at a construction site, and it has to be renewed monthly. I can’t tell you how many people in the client’s office called to ask if that was a joke.