Guying calcs or software

[Randy Plaunt]

First of all what a great forum. Discovered this site while searching for some guying software. The program that is made available to the designers (we are not engineers) causes over guying. It does not take in to consideration the length of the conductor. I am looking for something (free), I work for a public utility, that would take the conductor length and angles into the calc.
I am willing to share the excel software that was developed for our department.

 

[wirenut1980]

Randy, the guying calculations may or may not be overdesigned. It kind of depends on your utility's philosophy on guying and what grade of construction grade B or grade C NESC safety factors the pole guying is being designed to.

I have worked for a utility that guyed based on the breaking strength of the conductors and not on just the tension created by the dead end because their philosophy was that it was easier to string up wire than to have to replace a pole if something were to tear the wire down like a tree branch.

I currently work for a utility that guys based on tension of the conductors. I don't perform design work for this utility but looked it up in the engineering standards.

The company I work for has software to do the calculations, but I do not have a copy that I can send you...i.e. it installs off of another server.

If you want I can look over your spreadsheet and see what it is doing.