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dpb

On 02/07/2016 12:08 PM, wrote:
On Sun, 07 Feb 2016 09:55:59 -0600, "Dean Hoffman"
wrote:

The local REAs have been putting in twisted pair lines in the last
few years.
Does that help keep them from going down in ice storms?
It's not "twisted pair" - it's "triplex" and yes it is stronger than
individual wires, and they can't whip and hit each other either. The
neutral "carier" is usually a twisted steel cable and if not steel is
high strength aluminum alloy

It _IS_ twisted pair, not triplex. These are transmission lines, not
service entrance.

See the links philo posted altho here's the link to Southwire's product
page--

http://www.southwire.com/transmission/vr2.htm

Not sure who's Dean's REC is; here's one near us (altho not us
specifically, they're just west). We started a number of years ago
after a massive ice event took almost 60% of our total transmission
lines down.

http://www.southwire.com/support/kansas-co-op-fights-ice-with-vr2.htm

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