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NW KS/ SC ID | Thanks for all the excellent replies, it is much appreciated.
I will try to talk dad into keeping the 3 phase, IMO the meter fee is a small price to pay for the ability to have it.
For those curious on how its laid out, the shop meter is one pole in from the road, and the pole on the road has the transformer. the second pole in is the one that failed.
To my knowledge there is only 3 phase to the grain elevator, not to any of the shops, but I could be wrong.
The house meter pole is one pole in, but a much longer span than the shop system, I think they used full length span on it, and it has the transformer and the meter for the house.
As far as writing off the electricity, we allways write off the shop meter, and since the house is used as a farm office and we have the parts book and operators manual library in the basement, dad will write of a portion of the house bill. (also has the rack of batteries off the farm equipment being trickle charged off the garage, and block heaters for yard tractor off the garage too) probably a gray area on that one.
The meter fee is 16 dollars, and it is a major factor for dad (oh boy...) I am thinking for a future cold storage machine shed, I was thinking about putting it out north of the existing shop, directly east of the shop meter, so IMO running wires off that pole would be much easier. | |
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Farmyard power line questions
