Re: UHV power lines - was: this was probably really stupid

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Original poster: "Dr. Resonance" <resonance-at-jvlnet-dot-com> 




This also sounds like a great way to send power from the top of a magnifier
drive coil over to the resonator coil.

Dr. Resonance


 >
 > The 500 kV lines that TVA runs here in SW Tennessee are a baundle
 > of three ~1" conductors with triangle shaped spacers palced every
 > 150 ft. or so to keep them the same distance apart. I've never been
 > able to actually measure the length of the strung knox-disc insula-
 > tors that suspend the lines to the pylon towers but 13 ft. sounds
 > like a good guess. It seems like I've heard that they string 22 knox-
 > disc to insulate 500 kV. Of course many of the newer transmission
 > line installations use the much lighter rubber type insulators now.
 >
 >
 > David Rieben
 >
 > ----- Original Message -----
 > From: Tesla list <tesla-at-pupman-dot-com>
 > Date: Friday, May 28, 2004 2:00 pm
 > Subject: Re: this was probably really stupid
 >
 >  > Original poster: "J. B. Weazle McCreath" <weazle-at-hurontel.on.ca>
 >  >
 >  >
 >  > Hello Coilers,
 >  >
 >  > The 500 KV line that passes near my home has four, one inch conductors
 >  > spaced in a square configuration giving an effective diameter of about
 >  > one foot.  I saw this up close while the line was under construction.
 >  > I also got an up-close look at the insulators...they're 13 feet long!
 >  >
 >  > 73, Weazle, VE3EAR/VE3WZL
 >  >
 >  > Details of my "Hyperbaric Gap" and Tesla coil are at:
 >  > http://www.hurontel.on.ca/~weazle
 >  >
 >  >
 >  >
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