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Wooden electrical masts near a property

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  • ValHaller
    ValHaller Posts: 5,212 Forumite
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    Rachyk wrote: »
    The only impact they'd have on your property would be if someone could see them and didn't like the view! We have had problems of the transformers at substations humming at the same frequency as the broadband (BT said it more technically than that!) which meant the broadband didn't work, but that's on sites so I'm sure houses would never be close enough to the equipment for that to have any impact!
    They was bluffing you. Broadband operates at frequencies way above transformer hum.
    You might as well ask the Wizard of Oz to give you a big number as pay a Credit Referencing Agency for a so-called 'credit-score'
  • epz_2
    epz_2 Posts: 1,859 Forumite
    Dimey wrote: »
    How much voltage is classed as HV?

    HV/LV are really relative terms to the sides of the transformer, i have heard grid guys call 132,000V lines LV. That said most people think of HV as anything above domestic 240V.

    Remember the cancer link is only suspected and unproven however the key point is transmission lines, not the lines that feed houses. Distribution voltages vary wildly for historic reasons, hell some people are supplied using old dc tram cables etc but the more rural you are the less juice will be flowing down the cable.
  • Dave_6
    Dave_6 Posts: 170 Forumite
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    Smith_007 wrote: »
    What a load of utter crap.
    I can only assume you have been reading the Daily Mail.

    You beat me to it, well said :T
  • twink1108
    twink1108 Posts: 97 Forumite
    Thanks everyone... Here is a photo of the masts. Im currently waiting for the electricity company to tell me how many volts they carry - someone has told me 11,000 and someone else has said 33,000.

    You can actually see the substation in the photos as well, just between the arch of the trees.

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  • ValHaller
    ValHaller Posts: 5,212 Forumite
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    twink1108 wrote: »
    Thanks everyone... Here is a photo of the masts. Im currently waiting for the electricity company to tell me how many volts they carry - someone has told me 11,000 and someone else has said 33,000.

    You can actually see the substation in the photos as well, just between the arch of the trees.
    11000 Volts, without a doubt. Most houses are within 300 or 400m of an 11,000 Volt to 400/230Volt substation.
    You might as well ask the Wizard of Oz to give you a big number as pay a Credit Referencing Agency for a so-called 'credit-score'
  • twink1108
    twink1108 Posts: 97 Forumite
    Oh and they have confirmed that they are power lines rather than phone lines!
  • Davesnave
    Davesnave Posts: 34,741 Forumite
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    Same as the ones in my fields, except that yours have three conductors and mine only two. I think 3 means 3 phase, but I could well be wrong.

    I was hoping I'd have 3 phase nearby and this thread made me do a little digging, but it seems not. :(
  • Rachyk
    Rachyk Posts: 38 Forumite
    ValHaller wrote: »
    They was bluffing you. Broadband operates at frequencies way above transformer hum.

    This came direct from a BT man on site, and there is the same problem with business around Colchester grid! Not a bluff
  • Rachyk
    Rachyk Posts: 38 Forumite
    Dimey wrote: »
    How much voltage is classed as HV?

    11,000 and above
  • witchy1066
    witchy1066 Posts: 640 Forumite
    mine isn't as posh as that one, its not got the bar at the top and why has mine got a great big yellow sign on it saying "danger of death, keep off" the one in the photo doesn't seem have a warning sign,

    the numbers engraved in the wood are the identification numbers for the electricity company and or bt
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