Re: Can you identify this "pole transformer" looking thing . . .????

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Original poster: "Ben McMillen by way of Terry Fritz <teslalist-at-qwest-dot-net>" <spoonman534-at-yahoo-dot-com>

Those are quite possibly line balancing inductors.. They
help 'boost' the power on the lines.. it's a method of
reducing loss over long distances..

Coiling In Pittsburgh
Ben McMillen

--- Tesla list <tesla-at-pupman-dot-com> wrote:
 > Original poster: "by way of Terry Fritz
 > <teslalist-at-qwest-dot-net>" <dhmccauley-at-spacecatlighting-dot-com>
 >
 > While driving, I often look above at the beautiful power
 > lines and lust over
 > all those huge pole transformers.
 > However, I noticed every once in awhile (maybe every
 > half-mile), you'll see
 > (3) giant capacitors (rectangular type) on the
 > three-phase high voltage
 > which are obviously used for power factor correction on
 > the lines but it
 > looks like in parallel with each of the caps are (3) tiny
 > pole transformer
 > looking objects with two bushings out the top.  They are
 > probably about a
 > foot high each and about six inches
 > in diameter.  (Maybe a bit larger)  Anyone know what
 > these are?  Are they
 > perhaps another capacitor??
 >
 > The Captain
 >
 >


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