Re: [IRCA] Now that's a ground system! (OT)

[Charles A Taylor <MWDXer@xxxxxxx>]

At 03:37 PM 4/21/2007 -0400, you wrote:

> >They normally use two sets of double wires for transmission. One set is
> >positive and the other is negative.

A pair of conductors per pole or phase is called "bundling." It doubles
the current-carrying capacity, but it also increases the effective dia-
meter of the conductor, and so reduces corona.

Charles


Charles A Taylor, WD4INP
Greenville, North Carolina.. 


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