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| Street lights can be up to ? |
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| What voltage can be carried through High Voltage Conductors? |
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| High Voltage Signs on cross arms indicate conductors with more than ____ Volts? |
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| What act as circuit breakers in high-voltage circuits? |
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| How many different configurations of wires may be found for service conductors? |
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| 3 twisted around each other known as a Triplex |
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| Are street lights energized during daytime hours? |
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| Normally there is no current flowing in the daytime. |
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| What is unusual about the position of the street light on power polls? |
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| wires may be located on lower cross arms. |
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| Low Voltage conductors sometimes called secondaries carry ______________ volts? |
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| Transformers reduce high voltage to lower voltage, usually ____ to ________? |
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| High Voltage insulatros may be used to handle up to _________ volts? |
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| Usually used to isolate defective service area and is to be operated by power company patrolman only? |
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| Line Sectionalizing Switch |
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| Controls the voltage to transformers bank below and is operated by the POWER COMPANY poatrolman. |
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| High Line Hand switches carry up to 34,500 volts. When may firefighters operate them? |
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| When wires are down you must Notify OCDS and give the correct address and brief description, indicate ________? |
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Pole to Pole
or
House to Pole |
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| What wires may be cut by firefighter? |
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| low voltage wires 750 volts or less |
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| When cutting wire use a mechanical axe and rubber gauntlet gloves. The gloves are test to ______ every ______ days by DWP. WHo are they exchanged with? |
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10,000V
60 days
BN Staff Assistant |
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| Do not cut Triplex cables unless? |
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| They are seperated and cut individually |
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| What are transmission lines used for? |
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| To carry high volatge electricity |
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| What is the purpose of a distribution station? |
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| These stations take power from transmission lines and reduce the voltage for use in the ditribution line. |
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| The main fire hazard within the underground vaults lies in the colling oil used in the transformers which has a flash point below ? |
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| Can you use water to put out a fire in an underground vault? |
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| never put water into a vault. Use only nonconducting extinguishers and only when requested to do so by DWP |
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