Dead-end tower
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dead-end-tower-321-15426977
title:
Dead-end tower
text:
A dead-end tower is a fully self-supporting structure used in construction of overhead power lines. A dead-end transmission tower uses horizontal strain insulators at the end of conductors. Dead-end towers may be used at a substation as a transition to a "slack span" entering the equipment, when the circuit changes to a buried cable, when a transmission line changes direction by more than a few degrees, or at intervals along a straight run to limit the extent of a catastrophic collapse. Since de
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description:
Structure used in construction of overhead power lines
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead-end_tower
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date modified:
2023-08-23T09:37:01Z
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