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Archie

@davidho I think the old sodium lamps were around 1KW so they do have spare capacity in the cabling

26 May at 11:23 | Wall-to-wall | Open on mastodonapp.uk
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Alex@rtnVFRmedia Suffolk UK

@Archie8 @davidho

in UK a supply for a lamp post is as little as 500W and doesn't contain a meter. Its not impossible to take a stronger supply from the feeder pillar but is going to require a lot of upgrading of service cables in the street..

26 May at 12:12 | Open on social.tchncs.de
Archie

@vfrmedia @davidho That's the problem with the idea isn't it
If you have to dig down to the main supply, you may as well just put a new unit up at street level 🤷‍♂️

26 May at 12:31 | Open on mastodonapp.uk
Alex@rtnVFRmedia Suffolk UK

@Archie8 @davidho

that picture is from the UK (looking at the registration plate of the car), but there's evidence of recent extra work being done at the base of the lighting column suggesting there may have been a cable upgrade (its possible to do this without taking up the whole pavement with modern plant, Cadent were doing similar for gas pipes in my town).

Using the space already occupied by the column does at least remove the requirement to get further planning permission..

26 May at 12:34 | Open on social.tchncs.de
Bryan Boreham

@Archie8 @davidho the ones near my house charge at 4.8kW.

26 May at 13:36 | Open on grafana.social
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