We had a visit from Mother Nature two days ago; the 3rd this week. She practiced her "microburst" technique on trees in the area.
This resulted in a number of primary feeders [13.2KV] being on the ground rather than between poles.
The next morning; a cop told me there were some transformer fires. In one place, there are 3 small [oh, maybe 25KW] pole pigs on a pole
-- they feed 3PH to the dentist office in addition to the separate single phase. Sure enough, 2 of the three pig cases are now badly charred, but intact.
And farther down the road; a single-phase pig was also scorched.
Now the interesting thing was in both cases the secondaries were quite intact. And the inline fuses looked intact as well. (I've been told the 10-15A 7600v fuses eject to 30 degree position when they blow, so the line crew can see such from the ground.
[There was NO way such had been fixed by then, primaries were still all over the place then.]The only time I've seen a pig catch fire; it was from overheating on a long-term overload; such as a heat wave when I was in FL. Shorted secondaries just cleared the fuses.
So what could have caused these?
(BTW; more physically impressive was the restaurant down the road a ways. There, the 3PH pigs are far bigger than the dentist or the one 75KW I have out front. A large tree came down, wiped out 2 cars [one was the chef's...] and on the way, pulled down the 3PH+Neutral
4/0 cable.THAT pulled all three cans off their mounts and left them swinging from the primary fuses and returns. It took until 5pm before a contractor for PEPCO got them back in place.)