Topic: South America Street Wiring (Read 4479 times)

Tug Fanatic · « **on:** January 29, 2018, 02:28:25 pm »

As I said elsewhere my holiday photos don't look like anybody else's & now you will all know that I am mad but I could not ignore the overhead street wiring in the cities. I have seen the same in Europe but never like this. I just hope that it is all telephone cable but I strongly suspect that there are power lines in there as well.

We watched a van, which was presumably a couple of inches taller than those that normally used the road bring down a collection of wires & drive off.

Sitting on the top deck of an open top bus the wires sometimes ran along the roof top.

Netleyned · « **Reply #1 on:** January 29, 2018, 03:03:31 pm »

Sitting on the top deck of an open top bus the wires sometimes ran along the roof top.

Strange open top buses with roofs Ned

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Tug Fanatic · « **Reply #2 on:** January 29, 2018, 03:04:55 pm »

I am waiting for an electrician to comment.

Netleyned
Is that the smallest font that you could find?

Yes open top but with rails to keep the wires and passengers separate!

jaymac · « **Reply #3 on:** January 29, 2018, 03:21:21 pm »

I just hope that it is all telephone cable

Probably Skys 'Call Centre

Netleyned · « **Reply #4 on:** January 29, 2018, 04:03:12 pm »

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Bob K · « **Reply #5 on:** January 29, 2018, 04:04:48 pm »

These electricians should on no account be allowed to wire up model boats

inertia · « **Reply #6 on:** January 29, 2018, 04:18:06 pm »

Quote from: Bob K on January 29, 2018, 04:04:48 pm

These electricians should on no account be allowed to wire up model boats

Why not? I've seen worse than this underneath a deck.

DM

Martin (Admin) · « **Reply #7 on:** January 29, 2018, 05:11:07 pm »

Lots of insulation on the cables, all looks safe from here...... several thousand miles away!

inertia · « **Reply #8 on:** January 29, 2018, 06:52:03 pm »

Quote from: Martin (Admin) on January 29, 2018, 05:11:07 pm

Lots of insulation on the cables, all looks safe from here...... several thousand miles away!

And lots of different types of rodents with very sharp teeth to run along the cables and gnaw at the insulation. Apparently they're very fond of it the world over.
DM

Tug Fanatic · « **Reply #9 on:** January 29, 2018, 10:25:17 pm »

I would have thought that movement through wind etc would not help much given a little time.

malcolmfrary · « **Reply #10 on:** January 30, 2018, 09:11:24 am »

The big insulators are power, the uninsulated bare wires are power lines. The big terminals on the transformer box are a give-away.
The insulated stuff is probably telephone cable, the larger multi pair, some of it appears to be single pair drop wire. In all probability, a lot of it is old and unused, not having been removed when a replacement length was inserted, probably because of the high probability of damaging working stuff by removing it. When there is enough, it will probably serve to keep the rain off the street.

Brian60 · « **Reply #11 on:** January 31, 2018, 07:42:39 am »

They do similar in Spain. In fact in our village there is a block of 16 apartments that were built in 2007. The builder didn't apply for the correct permissions when built so they were not given habitation licenses. Without that he couldn't sell them have water connected or electricity. So there is just one occupied by a local, this chap got an electrician to wire into the junction box on the next door building wall, run the cable across the adjoining balcony and into his apartment through a window, in essence a giant extension cable. This powers his apartment at no charge for the electricity, he did the same for the water supply

RST · « **Reply #12 on:** February 03, 2018, 01:57:41 am »

Looks like the wiring in Thailand. Bangkok is like that in the close streets. Out in Phukhet that is the norm. I was there 2 weeks in "wet season" and you learned not to walk under any cluster of wires / transformer boxes in a decent downpour. The buzzing from a transformer was huge in the dry from the humidity anyway. You often saw sparks crossing connections overhead at night in a downpour -sparks fly and cinders dropping down on you like spent fireworks. Plenty entertainment out there if you're out near a pole at the wrong time. LoL.

......Mind you, my favourite place in the US (and I don't like the US) is Boston MA -and their wiring looks shocking compared to europe!

Cornishman · « **Reply #13 on:** February 03, 2018, 07:30:18 am »

My dear old Dad would describe that as "Like a rooks nest"!

Peter Fitness · « **Reply #14 on:** February 03, 2018, 10:19:41 pm »

That wiring looks very similar to what I've seen in Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon), and just about any other far eastern city I've been in, Manila, Seoul, Shanghai, etc. How on earth do they trace a fault, or do they just run another cable?

I'm also enjoying your posts, although they may have been better under one heading. Nevertheless, keep them coming

Peter.

Stavros · « **Reply #15 on:** February 03, 2018, 10:32:59 pm »

Looks very similar to a car rewiring job I had to do recently

Dave

Peter Fitness · « **Reply #16 on:** February 04, 2018, 10:20:33 pm »

Quote from: Stavros on February 03, 2018, 10:32:59 pm

Looks very similar to a car rewiring job I had to do recently

Dave

Peter.

davidm1945 · « **Reply #17 on:** February 04, 2018, 11:00:16 pm »

My son, a helicopter tech, would call it a "snake's wedding"!

raflaunches · « **Reply #18 on:** February 04, 2018, 11:13:06 pm »

Didn’t the BBC Nature do a programme on some primates living on these wires. If it was it was stunning as they explained how they filmed it and the troubles following the troop on these wires.

john44 · « **Reply #19 on:** February 28, 2018, 03:01:54 pm »

Quote from: Stavros on February 03, 2018, 10:32:59 pm

Looks very similar to a car rewiring job I had to do recently
John

Hi Dave,
Was that before you started or after you had Finished?

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