Bob La Londe wrote:
If the cable runs were running parallel to other still energized cable runs
then they could very well have had voltage induced onto them. When I worked
for Arizona Telephone Company we had issues with that even with underground
telephone cable running a couple hundred feet away but parallel to high
voltage cross country lines. (Other side of the road for about 10 miles)






There was a local guy who put that to good use for a while. He ran loops
of wire parallel to the HV lines overhead. The power was fed into a self
built regulator. The company caught him when they were trimming the ROW.
Charged him with theft of services and trespassing. Strange part of it
was that the judge actually told the guy that if he had ran the wires
only on his own property that the utility couldn't have done a thing!

--
Steve W.