hey Charlie, Utility Power Guy?

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Hi Charlie, I haven't seen you in a little, how ya been?

By Charlie: It is a device that clamps onto a wire (normally a transmission line) several feet away from the insulators to dampen the harmonics in the line. They have a stiff cable with large weights on the end that dampens the gallop in the winter when ice builds up on the lines and the wind makes them act like an airplane wing.
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Why, they're just giant guitar strings. You guys shouldn't just tighten 'em, you should "tune" them. :cool:
 
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Hi Charlie, I haven't seen you in a little, how ya been?
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I have been incredibly busy and have been crashing after getting home. I have been reading most of the posts but have stayed out of most of them. I have been catching up on work that has piled up while I was in George's neck of the woods (Colorado).

Thanks for asking Sam. :D
 
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Thanks
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Did hear years ago about a guy wraping a 55 gal steel drum with wire and placing it under the lines to steal power.Rather dangerious i would think.

Is this a true story or urban legend? I also heard about getting power from a barbed wire fence under a HV line
 
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It was many years ago but believe it to be true.Think about it.Has all the properties of a trandformer.Drum is the core,high voltage line is a partial turn,the coil was hundred of turns.We all know the field is there.As to how much he managed to get ,i think it was maybe enough for a 100 watt bulb.Some people will spend a $100 to steal a quarter.
 
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Originally posted by jimwalker:
Many times if i just made a yellow i will see 1 or 2 cars followed me.We are cracking down on it and im glad.
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You just have to be the last to make the light! :D
 
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By Tom B.: Did hear years ago about a guy wraping a 55 gal steel drum with wire and placing it under the lines to steal power.Rather dangerous i would think.

Is this a true story or urban legend? I also heard about getting power from a barbed wire fence under a HV line
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This was a true story, but it started out as a perpetual motion device that was supposed to generate electricity on it's own. The problem was when he tried to get a patent for it, the US patent office sent out several engineers to figure out how it was working and discovered that it was actually coupling magnetically to the overhead high tension lines that ran just behind his house. This was some where in Wisconsin in the "70's" I can remember the news cast about it.

I'll try to do a search on this and see what I can find on it.
 
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