Hi all, I know this is probably not the best site for this kind of question but I will ask anyway because some of you might know.
here goes. I live in an estate with around 250 houses and their is a substation in a large grey box in the car park behind the flats across where I live. first of all I know domestic wiring inside out but I am interested to know how it is set up before it enters the houses.
anyway about half up the street there is a box on pavement marked "electric supply", having done some research I discovered this was a link box but how is it connected?.
for a few years now at the top of the road there are new houses being built (different estate) where there is also a slightly larger substation in that area. infact it has always been been there before the new houses were built.
But I will get to the point without boring you all too much, recently there are more houses being built in this new estate. and a guy from edf energy guy was in our estate and opened up this link box and he pulled out a cast metal housing I never actually saw what was beyond that. then about half an hour later he wen't over to the substation in our street (the one in the car park not the one in the new estate).
So finally here comes the questions
1 how does this link box "electric supply" work?.
2 do both substations from our street and the new estate meet at this link box?.
3 is the substation connected to this box?
4 how does the substation in our estate connect all the 250 houses in our estate?
btw in relation to question 4 when the guy was in our substation I had a look in the substation and on the lv side of the transformer there was only 2 large black 3 phase cables (probably 300mm per phase) plus 2 earth cables. is it likely/possible that those cables will supply all 250 houses in our estate without turning into molten.
Any understanding of this would be deeply appreciated thanks. I know you might find this question unusual but I am very interested in electrics.
ps I hope you can read this. sorry if it doesnt make much sense. thanks
here goes. I live in an estate with around 250 houses and their is a substation in a large grey box in the car park behind the flats across where I live. first of all I know domestic wiring inside out but I am interested to know how it is set up before it enters the houses.
anyway about half up the street there is a box on pavement marked "electric supply", having done some research I discovered this was a link box but how is it connected?.
for a few years now at the top of the road there are new houses being built (different estate) where there is also a slightly larger substation in that area. infact it has always been been there before the new houses were built.
But I will get to the point without boring you all too much, recently there are more houses being built in this new estate. and a guy from edf energy guy was in our estate and opened up this link box and he pulled out a cast metal housing I never actually saw what was beyond that. then about half an hour later he wen't over to the substation in our street (the one in the car park not the one in the new estate).
So finally here comes the questions
1 how does this link box "electric supply" work?.
2 do both substations from our street and the new estate meet at this link box?.
3 is the substation connected to this box?
4 how does the substation in our estate connect all the 250 houses in our estate?
btw in relation to question 4 when the guy was in our substation I had a look in the substation and on the lv side of the transformer there was only 2 large black 3 phase cables (probably 300mm per phase) plus 2 earth cables. is it likely/possible that those cables will supply all 250 houses in our estate without turning into molten.
Any understanding of this would be deeply appreciated thanks. I know you might find this question unusual but I am very interested in electrics.
ps I hope you can read this. sorry if it doesnt make much sense. thanks