It'd have likely been the equipment in the street. That said, in Winter, you can overload this a bit. After all the failure mode would be the wires getting so hot they begin to melt.
If you know they're covered in ice, or are currently being rained on in near-freezing air temperatures, you can push more current than they'd be able to at 2pm on a hot summer's day.
It'd have likely been the equipment in the street. That said, in Winter, you can overload this a bit. After all the failure mode would be the wires getting so hot they begin to melt. If you know they're covered in ice, or are currently being rained on in near-freezing air temperatures, you can push more current than they'd be able to at 2pm on a hot summer's day.