The serviceability? These entitled customers would lose their minds if a fault occurred and their finely manicured lawns were being driven on and the cables were being dug up for repair.
Every video I see on installing underground cables to the houses in the USA, all the wires are in conduits. Just pull the wires out of the conduit and replace all the wires. Or take a locator and search the fault in the wire. And after that a shovel. The conduit/wires ain’t buried 6 ft. And digging 3 ft by hand isn’t that bad. And if you drive with a mini excavator on a lawn it isn’t completely destroyed immediately. Grass is quite resilient. And trimming the trees and bushes is better because the overhead wires are to close to it? Where I live 99,99% of all the houses have underground wires, the wires to my parents house are 50 years old and have never been replaced or had a fault. Just design the breakers properly.
Long underground cables in a metallic conduit or the conductors are closely spaced can have problems with inductive reactance which tends to make circuit breakers of fuses slower in tripping thus increasing a fire hazard.
Thats the next plan Starlink plans to tackle. After they get the satellite internet thing well established they plan to start delivering power to homes via satellite as well.
oh; trimming your trees and bushes near the cables every other year. Always seeing cables running in the air to your house. Always remembering that the stuff you place or use in your garden/driveway don’t go neer the cables. When a tree or limb falls down near a wire or a car hit a pole in your neighborhood you have broken wires. Broken wires because of ice buildup on the wires. More sensitive for lightning strikes and frying all your electrical equipment. ug; wires can last easily 50 years, even with 1/3 of an inch ground subsidence every year. Where I live 99,99% of all the houses have ug, and the house of my parents had never a powerfailure, within the cable itself.
The serviceability? These entitled customers would lose their minds if a fault occurred and their finely manicured lawns were being driven on and the cables were being dug up for repair.
Every video I see on installing underground cables to the houses in the USA, all the wires are in conduits. Just pull the wires out of the conduit and replace all the wires. Or take a locator and search the fault in the wire. And after that a shovel. The conduit/wires ain’t buried 6 ft. And digging 3 ft by hand isn’t that bad. And if you drive with a mini excavator on a lawn it isn’t completely destroyed immediately. Grass is quite resilient. And trimming the trees and bushes is better because the overhead wires are to close to it?
Where I live 99,99% of all the houses have underground wires, the wires to my parents house are 50 years old and have never been replaced or had a fault. Just design the breakers properly.
Long underground cables in a metallic conduit or the conductors are closely spaced can have problems with inductive reactance which tends to make circuit breakers of fuses slower in tripping thus increasing a fire hazard.
Thats the next plan Starlink plans to tackle. After they get the satellite internet thing well established they plan to start delivering power to homes via satellite as well.
Have a solar backup
solar ???? yeah right !!
ug vs oh , easier to fix overhead , ug is harder to fix , maps , locators , in yards , cant see ug ....
oh; trimming your trees and bushes near the cables every other year. Always seeing cables running in the air to your house. Always remembering that the stuff you place or use in your garden/driveway don’t go neer the cables. When a tree or limb falls down near a wire or a car hit a pole in your neighborhood you have broken wires. Broken wires because of ice buildup on the wires. More sensitive for lightning strikes and frying all your electrical equipment.
ug; wires can last easily 50 years, even with 1/3 of an inch ground subsidence every year. Where I live 99,99% of all the houses have ug, and the house of my parents had never a powerfailure, within the cable itself.