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Re: Typical BVI Electric service
[Re: CGB]
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04/28/2016 06:39 PM
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You live in the Caribbean and don't have a generator? LOL <img src="http://www.traveltalkonline.com/forums/images/graemlins/Grin.gif" alt="" />
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Re: Typical BVI Electric service
[Re: CGB]
#96081
04/28/2016 06:56 PM
04/28/2016 06:56 PM
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Find yourself a boat you like to sail and sleep on. Travel throughout the Caribbean and just about anywhere third world. At night position yourself comfortably where you can do you whatever it is you like to do and still see the island in the background. It will not take long to see whole sections of islands click into blackness as the powers that be God or Man take down the power sources. When the power goes out or when it comes back on. Note how the roosters and other animals react to the man imposed changes. Peter Island, The Ritz Carlton and the other high end resorts make the investments so they are not effected directly. If you must have your CNN or ESPN 24/7 I suggest the likes of the Ritz Carlton or Four Seasons. At least when you complain they will pay someone to hear you whine and pretend like they care. They employ and army of people with the title Assistant Manager so smile and fill that purpose.
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Re: Typical BVI Electric service
[Re: Nutmeg]
#96082
04/28/2016 07:34 PM
04/28/2016 07:34 PM
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GlennA
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My occasional efforts to understand the BVI infrastructure makes me believe cost to install is considered way more important than cost to maintain. Is Belmont service underground or on poles? All the distribution pole transformers I have seen outside of Roadtown have been 200kva that can serve maybe 8 or 10 houses at most. They should all have a fused cutout to protect them from lightning strikes, overloads and suicidal squirls and make maintenance easier with minimum interuption. Any other place in the world you should be able to pull the cutout to isolate that transformer and shut power to just those few houses. Sounds like they have to shut down the entire high voltage side.
Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. - Mark Twain
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Re: Typical BVI Electric service
[Re: GlennA]
#96084
04/29/2016 06:49 AM
04/29/2016 06:49 AM
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GlennA said: to protect them from lightning strikes, overloads and suicidal squirls and make maintenance easier with minimum interuption. squirls? [SIC] <img src="http://www.traveltalkonline.com/forums/images/graemlins/Grin.gif" alt="" /> <img src="http://www.traveltalkonline.com/forums/images/graemlins/Grin.gif" alt="" /> <img src="http://www.traveltalkonline.com/forums/images/graemlins/Grin.gif" alt="" />
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Re: Typical BVI Electric service
[Re: Nutmeg]
#96085
04/29/2016 06:50 AM
04/29/2016 06:50 AM
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casailor53
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Nutmeg said: You live in the Caribbean and don't have a generator? LOL <img src="http://www.traveltalkonline.com/forums/images/graemlins/Grin.gif" alt="" /> And in Belmont?
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Re: Typical BVI Electric service
[Re: LianeLeTendre]
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04/29/2016 01:22 PM
04/29/2016 01:22 PM
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I was managing a beach bar when Lenny rolled through in '99. It was literally at the end of the electrical feed, but the power came back after the hurricane. But the wire had come off the pole closest to the bar, and was hanging about head height. I called BVIEC and reported the problem, but also told them to obviously put me lower on the list since I DID have current. After a few days the winds came up a little, and as the wire swung with the wind, the lights in the bar were blinking on-and-off occasionally, so I called BVIEC the next day and told them not to leave me on the bottom of the list.
The next day two workers showed up. One went up the pole and one worked on the box on the side of the bar. After a while the guy motioned me over and said, "wha' on de menu?" I kinda thought he was shaking me down, but chocked it up as a cost of doing business, so I said "hamburger, cheeseburger, fish sandwich, chicken sandwich", etc. He grinned and said, "no fry rat?" and opened up the gray box all the way so that I could see what was causing my problem - a large rat, seeking shelter from the storm, had electrocuted himself, and partially burnt the wires!
I did give the BVIEC guys lunch.
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Re: Typical BVI Electric service
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#96089
04/29/2016 04:27 PM
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Rats are disgusting!! We just had a problem with our a/c here at the office. Turns out it was a fried SNAKE.. <img src="http://www.traveltalkonline.com/forums/images/graemlins/Sick.gif" alt="" />
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Re: Typical BVI Electric service
[Re: CGB]
#96090
04/29/2016 05:38 PM
04/29/2016 05:38 PM
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"As for generator - technically - don't we need a permit to install and operate one at home here? I don't think that rule is gone yet is it?"
We have to have a permit and have to repermit it annually on St Thomas, but it sure is nice when the lights go out all over.
[color:"red"]NUTMEG[/color] Today is the tomorrow you talked about yesterday.
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Re: Typical BVI Electric service
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#96092
04/29/2016 07:26 PM
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I believe a generator can only be used for backup power. If the BVIEC chatches you using it when mains power I avalable they can charge you for whatever they think you should have been billed.
Even in the US if you install a backup generator that is perminently wired into your house system the power company or local elecrical inspector has to pass on the switch over mechanism. Same with solar. That is to prevent it backfeeding into the main when workers are maintaining the line.
Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. - Mark Twain
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Re: Typical BVI Electric service
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04/29/2016 07:44 PM
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GlennA
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In the BVI, totally alien! BVIEC claims that it is because their people are not trained to work on live lines. In the case of solar panels that is totally bogus for several reasons. I believe it is actually to protect their investment in the distribution network and that line of generators at Pockwood Pond.
Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. - Mark Twain
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Re: Typical BVI Electric service
[Re: GlennA]
#96096
04/29/2016 08:08 PM
04/29/2016 08:08 PM
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Posts: 5,678 An island state of mind
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GlennA said: In the BVI, totally alien! BVIEC claims that it is because their people are not trained to work on live lines. In the case of solar panels that is totally bogus for several reasons. I believe it is actually to protect their investment in the distribution network and that line of generators at Pockwood Pond. Aside from the young guy who was electrocuted working on the lines on Virgin Gorda last year.
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Re: Typical BVI Electric service
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#96097
04/29/2016 08:26 PM
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GlennA
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I never heard any details on that accident other than he had only been on the job for a couple of weeks. That would indicate to me there was very little training at all.
Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. - Mark Twain
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Re: Typical BVI Electric service
[Re: SoggyDollarScott]
#96100
04/29/2016 11:45 PM
04/29/2016 11:45 PM
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Posts: 1,230 Middle Tennessee
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SoggyDollarScott said: I'm a high voltage lineman. Been doing it for over 30 years. Any chance they'd give me a job ?? In Wichita? Que the Glenn Campbell <img src="http://www.traveltalkonline.com/forums/images/graemlins/Groovin.gif" alt="" />
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