Power lines that run parallel to the Milford Rail Trail

Cleco's ALP lines crossing over the older Cleco 230kv lines built in the 90's.

from season to season..

HVDC Staged Line Fault On Ben-Hay-1

The pole 2 commissioning is coming to a very near end, so the time has come to start testing the way the poles react to line faults.

Using a pengalime attached to the tower, an electric fence wire is shorted from the tower to the live conductor.

This is done with the line at full voltage 350,000 Volts Direct Current and transferring about 350 Mega watts to the north (Benmore to Haywards)

This particular test, pole 3 was tripped and pole 2 took up the tripped value to keep the DC link running at around 700 Mega Watts. The short fault period carried about 6000 amps to ground but for only a few mille seconds..

Also part of this test is to check the function of the DC line Fault Locator. This equipment is capable of detecting a line fault and displaying a trace on a computer screen, giving the exact location of where the fault occurred. This is possible due to a GPS system and some sophisticated mathematics that detect the fault wave fronts from each end of the line.

The 138kv pass over the substation. This is the substation for the small town of Milton, LA. Notice the lean on the high line tower. All of the poles on this line lean in that direction.

There are a ton of ancient poles down this 20 mile stretch of road.

Polwerlines in the morning light

Fuji GA645W 45MM F11

Kodak Ektar 100

Processed using Unicolor C41 in JOBO CPP2 Processor

Scanmate 5000 PMT Drumscan

New Jersey wandering

A straight, narrow, bumpy, fairly steep trail at Killington.

Rolleicord Vb

Powerline in tyrol

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Bronica GS-1

Expired Kodak Portra 400NC

Saugerties, NY

Power lines

powerlines, blue sky, lines, geometry

Seagull 6x6, Fujj Reala, expired May 2002

Photo taken for Our Daily Challenge 9/18/16: Line Dance

Photographed from the front steps

These huge powerlines travel a long distance from Kárahnjúkar to the aluminum(?) factory in Reyðarfjörður, I desided to have my dog in the picure for you to see how huge this is.

Powerline trail (short cut) to Mt Kathleen, BC.

Power lines during the blue hour

My s2000

Powerlines just outside the Sixways Stadium in Worcester.

Powerlines and they sky

The Cleco lines following Hwy 90.