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[-] [email protected] 56 points 1 month ago

Fun fact: You can estimate the voltage by the length of the insulators. My guess is this is around 100kV (2x 3 phase circuits), around the border of transmission and distribution voltages.

You can also estimate the capacity by the number of conductors per phase. This has a pair of lines for each phase, so a fair chunk, but not the 3 or 4 conductors you sometimes see (although maybe you mainly see that on higher transmission voltages.

[-] [email protected] 31 points 1 month ago

Ooh a lightning sorcerer...

[-] [email protected] 17 points 1 month ago

There are some who call him: Tim?

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

It will be 128 kV or 345 kV.

[-] [email protected] 14 points 1 month ago

OP appears to be in the UK, so potentially (no pun intended) one of 400kV, 275kV, or 132kV.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

That pun was totally intended, and I cannot fault you for it.

I was thinking 132kV, but wasn't sure if this is Europe where you might find 100kV (although again it varies by country). In the UK, 132kV is the boundary between distribution and transmission. DNO's (Distribution Network Operators) generally use 11kV, 33kV, 66kV (generally rare but used in some areas eg in North West England) and 132kV, TNO's (Transmission) use 132kV, 275kV and 400kV. Although, a lot of 275kV substations are built to 400kV spec (eg in Scotland), so that they can upgrade in the future.

You sometimes get this with power lines, they might install higher voltage insulators then run it at a lower voltage until some time later when the network is upgraded. This spoils the game of guess the voltage/makes it more challenging, and you end up with really weird looking connections between large pylons and small poles.

[-] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

According to the national grid map this is a 275kv line so there you go :)

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

no pun intended

None taken.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

The more I look at it I think it might be a 132kV line on a 400kV tower, with the intention to upgrade it some time in the future. I say this because the insulators aren't actually the full length of the spacing from the tower, there's a separator between the tower and the start of the insulator fins. This makes me think they've left room for longer 400kV insulators to be installed.

Saying that though I have no idea, there could have been all sorts of other considerations that led to a configuration like that.

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[-] [email protected] 19 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

i work for a utility company, we got even simpler ones on the wall 😄

[-] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago

That's some hot centerfolds

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Wait until you happen to visit to Risti, Estonia, where a mast named Soorebane inhabits an intersection of some country roads. :)

Of course, it's an artsy decorative exception for where a high voltage line must cross through a public place. In all other places, ordinary lattice grid masts.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

The ThePyroPython Pylon

[-] [email protected] 20 points 1 month ago

Seems like something we should construct more of

[-] [email protected] 17 points 1 month ago
[-] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago

Far over the misty pylons tall

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Two voltage deep, resistance Ohm

[-] [email protected] 16 points 1 month ago

I like pictures like this, shows that the person who took it is somewhat creative and thinks out of the box.

[-] [email protected] 16 points 1 month ago

thinks out of the box.

or inside the pylon

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Lmao yes indeed

[-] [email protected] 14 points 1 month ago

You are now trapped by my stand『SUPER FLY』

[-] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago
[-] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago

I like geometric patterns :)

[-] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago

I like when something usually considered just background becomes interesting.

[-] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

Looking up an electricity pylon's skirt.

[-] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

If I remember correctly, you are now trapped there until you trick someone else into taking your spot.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

At least your knives will be sharp

[-] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

The effing tower.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

Straight out of Dr. Strange

[-] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

Looks like part of a space station orbiting a water planet

[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

Damn, now I can't unsee it!

[-] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

Did you get a buzzing sensation being under it?

[-] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

Did you also get to see the Mona Lisa?

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

No, but I saw some high school students arguing with a hobo

[-] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

That looks super neat.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago
  • escape route?
  • thermal starter?
  • timer?
  • thermite?
  • battery?

...good luck!

[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

This, this I like.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

Damn I’ve always wanted to stop along the highway and get a shot like this. Great pic. Thank you

[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

Everyone who sees anything on this picture... Are you sure you are not enemy stand users?

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Love this perspective shot.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

damn the 5g radiation coming from this photo is enlarging my gayness allele

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Some of these were installed on my family farm in the US through eminent domain. Meaning, we had no choice but the government was supposed to pay us a fair market value for the use of our land. I still remember that because that year all us three kids all got new bicycles!

I don't love them. If you are right underneath them, it seems like you feel the electricity and sometimes hear them crackle.

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