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  1. bhyde

    Angle Suspension or Strain Arrangement?

    I agree with bacon4life. If the substation deadend does not require some other tension than what is out there now, I see no need in deadending the new alignment. It will cause more loading issues and should be analyzed structurally then. If you are simply re-aligning the conductors (i.e. no...
  2. bhyde

    How to calculate Wind load and Ice load of a custom equipment in PLS-POLE

    Rohit, When I am creating equipment in PLS Pole, it doesn't ask me for the load, in particular, but rather for the wind and ice area. The wind area would be the cross sectional area of the equipment in the Z-Y or Z-X plane. The ice area would be the cross sectional area of the equipment in the...
  3. bhyde

    Maintenance/Operation of ACSS Conductors

    Stevenal, I'm not 100% sure what you mean by stirrups, but I Googled it and couldn't find anything for ACSS. How do you use stirrups for non-ACSS conductors?
  4. bhyde

    Maintenance/Operation of ACSS Conductors

    Hello, Does anyone have any experience using "hot-stickable" connectors for ACSS conductor? Generally you are required to use compression connectors for ACSS, but that significantly limits your ability to operate and maintain a line. For example, you have a tap structure off of a ACSS line...
  5. bhyde

    How to mirror a profile with PLS-CADD

    Hello Jean, I believe you can do this by Terrain/Alignment/Reverse Alignment.
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