hdman
Flt Rider
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Appleton, WI
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Re: Define medium voltage
MV is between 600V and 15KV...although some say 24kV depending on the area of teh country. Anyway, there is only ONE transformer per home unless there is a cluster of homes a distance from the utility line, then they will feed 3-4 homes off one transformer. Remember, they stated this is a LOW voltage technology, or under 600VAC. Those wires in front of your house are typically at 4160V, then it is transformed to 220V and brought into the home, so at the pole they would need to put this wireless receive. Hence my point, why bother calling it "BPL" when it is only from the pole to the house??
Just an opinion....
HDMan
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plk
bo may sleep in loft
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Ogden, IA
1 edit | It depends on what they mean by medium voltage. If they have to have a wireless node at every transformer, then its a wash.
I have not looked that closely, but I think only 10 to 15 homes are on a transformer, maybe less. That's a lot of wireless nodes to contend with.
In the country, every house has a transformer and the country is the untapped market for the most part.
I sure hope this wireless via natural gas lines pans out.
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