Power outage power pole and transformer replacement in my front yard

[@marcberm]

Completely rebuilding a pole it makes sense they'd replace the transformer and use all new devices and fittings. I think a lot of people are surprised to learn that overhead utility lines are a whole engineered system and not simply wires nailed to a bunch of wooden sticks. It's designed on purpose for one or two spans to be completely out without affecting the integrity of the lines, and for the extra weight load to be carried by the rest of the system. Kind of cool when nice content happens right outside your house and all you've got to do is film it! Nice work as always, keep it up!

[@nics-systems-electric]

Yeah absolutely not too surprised they replace the transformer as the 50 kVA did seem kind of small anyway I'm surprised they didn't do it all at once though as around six months ago they replaced cut out fuse with a new one with a new lightning arrester which wasn't in place before and they also ran a ground down the pole just surprised they redid all their work that they had just done six months ago and didn't do it all at once

[@marcberm]

@@nics-systems-electric Yeah weird they didn't just delay those other repairs or do the whole pole earlier. Not surprised it's taller though. That seems to be a thing lately. They've slowly been replacing all the poles that carry primaries in my neighborhood and they're all much taller like that. Except here they're doing it faster, but putting the new poles in next to the old ones and it's kind of a mess. It's like they can't get the utilities to cooperate and all come out and deal with their lines at the same time so they have to do it in steps like this. And as if electric, cable and phone weren't enough, the city manages streetlights so they have to come put them back up with a firetruck after the electric utility takes them down to put up the new pole.

[@nics-systems-electric]

@@marcberm that sounds like a mess I don't see the point of cities dealing with street lights when they don't pay for it anyways they're not metered here at least power company just deals with street lights but the cooperation with fibre and cable/phone is still not the best power company will hang it back up with a rope and then whoever is responsible for the phone lines comes back later for a permanent install

[@marcberm]

@@nics-systems-electric The part with the fiber sounds about the same as this mess lol. When most municipalities around here converted to LED streetlights they took the opportunity to redraw the agreements between the city, power company, and sometimes third party management companies. The short of it is that at least in my city, the fixtures and replacement were free from the utility, if the city took over maintenance from there. The city happily agreed to that, assuming it'd be a piece of cake since LEDs are "practically maintenance free" figuring it would be a new era not like the old days of constantly changing old sodium/halide HID bulbs.

[@luiscoelho4151]

Maybe the components like transformer and other things have been delayed for "crafted" because no transformer on they warhouse maybe and the workers maybe waiting deliver on they stock on there warhouse several possiblities can be considered 🤔😕🤷🏻‍♂️

[@The_3_Triangle]

the neighborhood are beautiful in this winter time...also idk why but watching lots of your videos give me a nostalgic feeling....i'm not old but i didn't describe why this happening every time but i love comeback and rewatching you videos time by time

[@Friendlytaco]

Ayla was so cute playing catch with the drone

[@bradwilmot5066]

"Big sky raisin!"

[@HydraBOOM120]

5:18

[@GaryBeltz]

"Stop eating my door wedge!" 🤣I'm guessing the only reason the FACP backlighting was on during the power failure was due to the supervisory.

[@nics-systems-electric]

The fire alarm panel has power it stays backlit when there is AC power which there was because the buildings was powered off the generator

[@GaryBeltz]

@@nics-systems-electric I was talking about before you started the generator

[@nics-systems-electric]

@@GaryBeltz it wasn't backlit before the generator was started

[@Starlight_Emergency_Light]

Nice! I love when power goes out! I guessing this was the one in December

[@Starlight_Emergency_Light]

I hadn't had a planned outage in soooo long! I'm in grade 10 and last planned one was probably in grade 4 or 5 5 or 6 years!

[@GaryBeltz]

Why do you like power outages? Even my UPS wouldn't not allow me to get through an 8 hour shift working from home and my job is completely work from home

[@Starlight_Emergency_Light]

@@GaryBeltz I like power outages because great content on KZbin and I get to see my Emergency lights in motion and it's calming

[@nics-systems-electric]

November 29

[@canadianemergencylights]

@@nics-systems-electric oh my bday nice

[@YamilethAlvaradoMejia]

I love it keep it up

[@cz_Fenix]

27:27 best worker, waves at the camera (or I guess in that case drone)

[@robertbeyers1308]

Nic I wish you had done a voice over during drone footage. But other than that the video was great. Keep the good work going Nic.

[@VOLTRONDEFENDER4440]

tbh If I had the money I would have gotten a big battery to power up most low power devices but they are super expensive over $1,000 US

[@nics-systems-electric]

I mean you can get UPS's I have four in place just to keep the essential stuff going until the generator is started but from my experience UPS is are only good if there is a generator that is going to start they don't go long enough on their own they're OK for quick power bumps but otherwise they need to be backed up by a generator same with the one in my school which does the whole data Netwerk its output is 120/208 V at 40 A but it's only there to cover the 15 seconds at most until generator restores power

[@VOLTRONDEFENDER4440]

@@nics-systems-electric the problem with those UPS is pcs that have high wattage can drain the battery super fast

[@nics-systems-electric]

@@VOLTRONDEFENDER4440 they make pretty big ones I've got a 1500 VA in the house keeping the Netwerk going that one should keep a PC going for a decent amount of time and of course they do make bigger ones like that one at my school which would do your whole house but that gets very expensive lol

[@VOLTRONDEFENDER4440]

@@nics-systems-electric yea it gets expensive

[@J19_vlogger74]

4:33 how the heck did you get a popsicle stick to go into the power pole?

[@nics-systems-electric]

Big cracks in the side

[@Firealarmperson902]

i love the videos. keep up the good work

[@nics-systems-electric]

Thanks will do

[@Friendlytaco]

Did you ever get a new voice thing for the security system?

[@nics-systems-electric]

No not doing the voice system just going to go back to a regular siren

[@TheWallyjp]

do you have a generator for the house too or just the garage?

[@DigitalIP]

Looks like its just for his man cave.

[@firefighternic]

awesome video man!

[@nics-systems-electric]

Thanks

[@firealarm421]

How many gallons of fuel does your generator hold

[@nics-systems-electric]

5.5 gallons

[@Fire_Alarm_Duude]

Nice but sucks the powers out tho

[@nics-systems-electric]

Personally I love it when the power goes out

[@firealarm421]

How long was your power out for

[@nics-systems-electric]

i believe i said in the video what time it went off and what time it came back on at

[@Elevatingaroundtown]

For how long you have been building that generator room, it works really well, but my one problem is that you have to manually get it going. Looking at the type of generator, I guess you have to do it manually

[@Trenten.Fieldstad]

A few months agoHe made it automatic kzbin.info/www/bejne/iGGrqp-kn7iYndUsi=Sq8V-DwJwD35veF2

[@thomaswhitten468]

Do you get much snow in Canada?, also is the pole supported by the dirt or is there other support?

[@nics-systems-electric]

Yes we get snow and the pole gets put in the hole with gravel around it

[@lanealucy]

I installed a genset controller on my and even made a DIY electrical choke for it, so the controller can completely automatical start it, wait for warm up and then outputs signal to transfer

[@nics-systems-electric]

What controller do you use

[@lanealucy]

@@nics-systems-electric I use a cheap mebay dc70d with a simple NO remote start input, but there is also the dc72d with integrated power grid monitoring. And if you want to communicate with them, there are also the dr variants of both of them

[@Uhh.thankyou]

ngl, If I had that generator I would be using that on main house.

[@nics-systems-electric]

Would need to be a much bigger generator

[@Uhh.thankyou]

@@nics-systems-electric ah ok

[@thomaswhitten468]

@@Uhh.thankyou i think it would depend on the size of the building of what size generator to use

[@nics-systems-electric]

@@thomaswhitten468 mostly just depends on the load of the building mine would be extremely high would need to be a larger generator

[@Uhh.thankyou]

@@thomaswhitten468 ye

[@chadrowland5234]

No. Your service drop needs to be replaced. The gutter is going to rub against the insulation without a doubt.

[@nics-systems-electric]

Yeah after we called them they came back a few weeks later and fixed it

[@J19_vlogger74]

I was out of power yesterday.

[@nics-systems-electric]

Nice

[@cbart1987]

b4 showing one's bed room one should hide there "dirty magazines"

[@adamcrane1436]

It is cold day today

[@Vigilance108]

I have a dog named Bella, she's A Catahoula

[@brianfortuna6691]

No caption? You forgot about caption for deaf and hard of hearing because I’m deaf.

[@nics-systems-electric]

KZbins problem

[@benrodriguez4905]

DID HE SWEAR ON THE CHANNEL I NEVER HEARD SWEARING IN THIS CHANNEL BEFORE

[@nics-systems-electric]

You must have not watched durability testing before

[@benrodriguez4905]

@@nics-systems-electric i did I did not hear the swearing geez this is my first time Lol

[@itzParty]

Ava needs a new cone