Cell phone tower antenna

[hhsting]

I have a site where cell phone antennas are going to be mounted on utility owned transmission tower with tranmission lines 12.5kV AC. Is their a min distance nec calls for antennas to be installed on transmission tower with power lines?

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[kwired]

Not sure NEC even covers this.

Another question may be is the cell equipment something used by the owner of the transmission line or is the tower being leased to another party? I ask because most probably wouldn't want anyone else on their structures for liability reasons, exception would be high voltage crews that they have contracted to work on them.

 

[hhsting]

Not sure NEC even covers this.

Another question may be is the cell equipment something used by the owner of the transmission line or is the tower being leased to another party? I ask because most probably wouldn't want anyone else on their structures for liability reasons, exception would be high voltage crews that they have contracted to work on them.

Tower is being leased to the cell company. Would imagine high voltage crew would be contracted to do work.

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[kwired]

Just realized you said 12.5kV. That isn't normally considered transmission voltage, just local distribution voltage level, and often won't have that great of distance between conductors. But most POCO still won't want anyone on their structures that aren't trained to work around those voltages, and still will want to limit those that are trained to their own employees or those that have been contracted to do work on their system.

I would guess the owner of the line would have requirements (likely based on NESC) on how far away from open ungrounded conductors any foreign equipment may be placed.

 

[ggunn]

A couple of years ago we put a PV system on the roof of a church. That church rents out space on its steeple for cell phone transceivers.