[01:34] <G> olly: if they look like the guys that wear rubber suits and that, you should be good, they are the same guys that climb up the 220kV transmission lines and work on them while they are live ;)
[01:37] <G> (we had one of the transpower live wire crews on our property last week replacing insulators on the Marsden-Auckland transmission line, the work with basically everything but the wires they are working with at the time live
[01:41] <olly> they have high vis vests, so she'll be right
[01:41] <ibeardslee> jandals and high vis vests?
[01:42] <olly> i suspect it'll be gumboots, but i didn't go close enough to check
[02:19] <G> anyway, don't half the poles have [room for] two shelves so they semi-warm transfer transformers from memory?  Unless they short that thing, you shouldn't even notice it, not like far north where they had to wait like 2-3 days for a replacement transformer :)
[03:55] <olly> G: i kind of assumed it was new - there's some land over the road that's being turned into new sections
[03:55] <olly> so far the power's stayed on though
[03:56] <G> olly: oh, if it's for a subdivision, you won't notice it, they just need to put a transformer to keep the voltage constant for the subdivision lines
[03:57] <G> olly: our neighbours had to get a transformer put it at the end of their 250m+ undergrounded line for power stability cost them a fortune, but it was the only way they could get power supplied
[03:58] <G> olly: iirc from when they hooked up that, they just get a live wire crew in to do the final hook-up
[04:06] <hads> Last I checked with my sparky getting a 240v transformer feed put in off the lines is a minimum $7500, normally $10k for a straight forward job.
[04:23] <G> yeah, not surprised
[21:09] <mwhudson> morning
[21:09]  * mwhudson is cloning from github at 1MB/s over 3g, kinda impressed
[21:18] <chilts> morning
[22:10] <olly> morning
[22:25] <chilts> mwhudson: I used a 2degrees Huawai modem as my main home connection for about 2 years, it was pretty decent
[22:26] <chilts> speed was good, of course data was expensive, so that stopped me doing some things (e.g. cloud backups, photos, etc)
[22:27] <mwhudson> yeah
[22:27] <mwhudson> the only good thing about nz data is that because it's capped the telcos don't play silly buggers around tethering