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ShinerBock wrote:

NJRVer wrote:


Power companies should look into this.

https://www.ctcglobal.com/blog/importance-transmission-line-efficiency/

LOL, high voltage lines are not what I am talking about. It is the lines from the substations to the users. These high power lines deliver electricity from the power plant to substations and adequate in most areas. The lines from the substation to the user, however, are not in most areas.

Also, line efficiency has nothing to do with it. It is line carrying ability that is of a concern. A certain size line can only carry so much energy. More energy being transfered require bigger line.

Your city's power company must be pretty backwards.
Go into any area of population and all you have to do is look up at the poles and see the lines that are run. In NJ the power companies keep up with development. Large power hog coming in, power company makes sure they can handle it. If not they will be stringing more cable on the poles. Not unusual to see 6 lines on one pole around here with all the development. This is just the regular wooden telephone pole on the side of the road, not the high tension towers.

Compare that to rural NC where I own property and there is one strand of wire on a telephone pole that is about 30% smaller than the poles here in NJ and the one wire on that pole looks like a piece of Romex.
Not going to run very many MegaChargers off that line.