- Location
- San Francisco Bay Area, CA, USA
- Occupation
- Electrical Engineer
Even if it works as designed, it would only work on triplex service drops. Typical service drops in the Middle East are separate insulated wires, not triplex with a bare neutral. They would also be 230V to ground, so a device that works in the USA wouldn't help much in Afghanistan or Iraq.
When you're lugging a 50-cal full-auto around, you can pretty much do what you please.
The body of the device is supposed to make contact with the uninsulated conductor.The blade looks small enough that for most service drop sizes, it would only make contact with only one conductor at a time. To complete the circuit, you merely clip onto a ground.... the meter socket, the ground wire, ground rod......
Not all triplex service drops are 120/240 volts either.
You could shoot the attachment of the overhead drop and get it down to a level easier to attach the tapping device:grin:
Another thought - how do they remove these devices when they are done with them or are they a one time $50,000 expenditure?
$50K buys a lot of batteries!
Yeah - hook up mini solar panels to run the night vision goggles. :roll:this is ridiculous....solar is the way to go.
$50K buys a lot of batteries!
this is ridiculous....solar is the way to go.