AsiaFlyer said:Here in Thailand, we have these to deal with this mess everywhere to try and avoid:
Happyflyer said:PhantomFanatic has a good list of places to avoid. It looks like we were in the same job at one time. For me it was a long time ago. If you start to climb a tower that has 345,000 volts going through the wires and the hair on your arms and neck start to stand up, it well tells you to get down and not fly your quad anywhere near them. I have three phases of 14,400 volts running past my house and they have not caused me any problems. I sure do not fly very close to them.
Happyflyer said:Lets see, if we look close, maybe on the left, no, up, no, right, no, or through that opening on the......Oh, forget it. No way in hell to fly past that mess! :shock:
It was 1972 when I went into electrical construction. Most of our work was construction and nothing was "hot." A few times stringing wire on one side of towers with the other side energized, that sure caused shock problems. The last few years of that work was distribution and that was "hot." Best "fun" was when an apprentice lineman opened a cutout and the arc followed the fuse holder all the way down to the bottom of its swing. Arc broke just as movement stopped. Interesting when you were 3 feet from it. Never did any substation work, but it sure looked interesting.PhantomFanatic said:.....I don't know if you did the same, but we had to do switching on,those voltages. When I started in 1973, we used wooden poles (very heavy!) to reach up and touch 500KV. Then we changed to fiberglass poles, but through this pole, I touched all voltages. You finally get used to it.
I hated even walking under 500KV structures in our substations. The static electricity was VERY intense! Touching a grounded structure was very electrifying! Pun intended.
I counted about 32-34 insulators. Here in the USA a 345,000 volt line only need 17 in a string. I put up many of them. With so many insulators are you sure of that voltage?M.Tigelaar said:This is near my house (150.000 Volts)
No problem at all
Happyflyer said:I counted about 32-34 insulators. Here in the USA a 345,000 volt line only need 17 in a string. I put up many of them. With so many insulators are you sure of that voltage?M.Tigelaar said:This is near my house (150.000 Volts)
No problem at all
Also, you would never get me to fly that close.
BlackTracer said:That's not a rats nest, This is a rats nest:
tvleaker said:so the warning about cell towers and power lines is overdone?
I don't think they do. I would just think run another line750r said:BlackTracer said:That's not a rats nest, This is a rats nest:
Man could you imagine trying to troubleshoot anything in their WOW