fototek1 Posted October 12, 2019 Posted October 12, 2019 How far from your house is the power transformer? Ours is almost 1 kilometer and when we turn on to much power voltage drops to 170 volts. power company said P200,000 to install a new transformer. I am also assuming it would not be our transformer and we would be sharing with others. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jimeve Posted October 12, 2019 Posted October 12, 2019 (edited) 42 minutes ago, fototek1 said: How far from your house is the power transformer? Ours is almost 1 kilometer and when we turn on to much power voltage drops to 170 volts. power company said P200,000 to install a new transformer. I am also assuming it would not be our transformer and we would be sharing with others. I kilometer is too far, you're losing out to much electric, transformer needs to be close to your house. Mine is about 80 meters away. Ours is a 15 kva. and serves us only. Edited October 12, 2019 by jimeve extra info 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fototek1 Posted October 12, 2019 Author Posted October 12, 2019 jimeve, did you buy the transformer? How much? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jimeve Posted October 12, 2019 Posted October 12, 2019 1 hour ago, fototek1 said: jimeve, did you buy the transformer? How much? Can't remember exactly how much it cost it was several years ago, It weren't cheap I would be guessing at 200,000 pesos. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jack Peterson Posted October 12, 2019 Posted October 12, 2019 (edited) 3 hours ago, jimeve said: Can't remember exactly how much it cost it was several years ago, It weren't cheap I would be guessing at 200,000 pesos. Member @sonjack2847 recently Bought and had one Installed maybe he can throw some light on the Current pricing Edited October 12, 2019 by Jack Peterson spelling HUH! 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sonjack2847 Posted October 12, 2019 Posted October 12, 2019 20 kva 70k installed. 4 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jimeve Posted October 12, 2019 Posted October 12, 2019 (edited) 2 hours ago, sonjack2847 said: 20 kva 70k installed. That's cheap, I will ask the boss exactly how much was ours, she bought it years ago. edit. She says it was 56,000 pesos after discount. Edited October 12, 2019 by jimeve asked the boss how much exactly was the transformer 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arizona Kid Posted October 12, 2019 Posted October 12, 2019 7 hours ago, fototek1 said: How far from your house is the power transformer? Ours is almost 1 kilometer and when we turn on to much power voltage drops to 170 volts. power company said P200,000 to install a new transformer. I am also assuming it would not be our transformer and we would be sharing with others. Ours is not even a half a block away. They had to change it one night about 8 years ago. I watched them while sitting outside drinking Emperador cuz we had no electricity. Took them about 9 hours. I was pretty shitfaced by the time they were done. 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fototek1 Posted October 12, 2019 Author Posted October 12, 2019 Thank you for the responses. I will send someone down to Meralco to see about a better more accurate price. I need to do the calculations but we will need a larger unit. In the US we have 200AMP service and I believe that will equal a 50kva transformer. For the Philippines the equation goes like this ; for a 50 KVA transformer we will multiply 50 x 1000 and then divide it by 240v. That gives us 208 amps. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Forum Support Old55 Posted October 12, 2019 Forum Support Posted October 12, 2019 Interesting topic please keep us posted. Price quoted including the pole and labor? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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