Thread: Burnt Cable!
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Old 13-11-2009, 14:24   #9
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Re: Burnt Cable!
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Originally Posted by heero_yuy View Post
I suspect that you lost the neutral connection back to the substation, the voltages then depend on the relative loads on the phases,(tech: the connections of live to homes is rotated about the three phases to try and balance the loads) there is usually some sort of local connection between neutral and earth. I guess that the power was using the earthing of the coax to find it's way back to neutral.

This happened to the power near where my mother lives, the power is on overhead lines, this time it blew out almost every bit of kit. Think you were lucky.
Just make sure that the STB has enough ventilation and is not in a position where it's being knocked or moved about constantly, you'd be amazed at the state of the STB's can be in in a small number of customers houses.
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