OT: Cryptic writings

Various guys, from the cable TV or gas/water/sewage or power companies will occasionally trace their underground lines and make those marks on the street or sidewalk, prepatory to some maintenence.

Expect some digging maybe.

I don't know how standardized the colors are nationally but most of the time white is cable or phone, red is power, yellow is gas, and blue or green is water or sewer.

Or more serious stuff:

Obviously an Edmonton fan. ;)

Cheers

Phil Hobbs

PMH12120 (or whatever...) is Pad Mounted transformer H12120, ie: that big green thing in the second picture.

As has been posted, PMH2120 is Pad Mounted transformer, number H2120, from your second picture. Pad Mounted means it goes on a concrete slab on the ground, as opposed to the kind that bolt to a pole.

BSP might be the initials of the local power company, or might mean something like B--- SPlice. I don't know what the B might stand for.

Red - Electric Orange - Communications, Telephone/CATV Blue - Potable Water Green - Sewer/Drainage Yellow - Gas/Petroleum Pipe Line Purple - Reclaimed Water White - Premark site of intended excavation

For extra credit, add your own lines whenever these colors appear on a street near you.

Also,

Matt Roberds

Seems that "TO PMH 2120" refers to the xfmr pictured "K12120"; the "BSP" should be easily decodeable once the power provider name and maybe naming conventions are known.

British Standard Pipe? That's a common type of thread form used for joining up conduit piping.

Maybe this is the other part:

V

Confused, those pictures have nothing to do with Vic Rattlehead OR Dave Mustaine.

(...Those who get it will know.)

Tim

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