Re: primary solid/ tube and DC TENSION LINES

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Original poster: "Daniel McCauley by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <dhmccauley-at-spacecatlighting-dot-com>


I guess it depends on distance.  I believe they send it DC to prevent
standing waves from forming on very long lines (100+ miles etc...)

Dan



> >Actually, very long distance, very high voltage tension
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> >lines are DC !!!!
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> Actually: SOME are.  The highest voltage ones are
> AC.
> (Hint:
> Some of the power i use to send this comes from Hydro-Quebec in in
> Canada, via
> +/-500KVDC link.
> I got a tour with the local IEEE group, some years
> back...
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> >>Heck, skin effect is an issue for long distance 60 Hz
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> >> power lines (hence ACSR
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> ..and occiasional use of hollow ocnductors (tho
> this may be a past practice...)
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> >> and bundling)
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> Bundling is for corona reduction/avoidance.  The
> 'bundle' of smaller wires 'looks like', for
> e-field, a conductor with a radius of the bundle.
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> ferinstance, the HVDC link i mentioned above uses
> _bundled_ conductors AT DC...
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> At Tesla coil primary currents and voltages, skin
> effect is starting to become noticable, expecially
> for the RF component...
>
> best
> dwp
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