enow.com Web Search

Search results

1. Results from the WOW.Com Content Network

2. Anchor portal - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anchor_portal

   An anchor portal or H-frame tower is a gantry structure supporting overhead power lines in a switchyard. Their static function is similar to a dead-end tower . Anchor portals are almost always steel -tube or steel-framework constructions.

3. Utility pole - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utility_pole

   A utility pole, commonly referred to as a transmission pole, telephone pole, telecommunication pole, power pole, hydro pole, telegraph pole, or telegraph post, is a column or post used to support overhead power lines and various other public utilities, such as electrical cable, fiber optic cable, and related equipment such as transformers and ...

4. Dead-end tower - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead-end_tower

   A dead-end tower (also anchor tower, anchor pylon) [1] 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.

5. Insulator (electricity) - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Insulator_(electricity)

   A three-phase insulator used on distribution lines, typically 13.8 kV phase to phase. The lines are held in a diamond pattern, multiple insulators used between poles. Insulators are characterized in several common classes: Pin insulator - The pin-type insulator is mounted on a pin affixed on the cross-arm of the pole. The insulator has a groove ...

6. 'Uninhabitable for weeks or months': Why Helene's hurricane ...

   www.aol.com/uninhabitable-weeks-months-why-helen...

   Most trees are snapped or uprooted and power poles are downed. "Power outages will last weeks to possibly months. Most of the area will be uninhabitable for weeks or months," the hurricane center ...

7. Guy-wire - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guy-wire

   A sailboat's mast is supported by shrouds (side-to-side) and stays (fore-and-aft) – nautical equivalents of guy wires.. A guy-wire, guy-line, guy-rope, down guy, or stay, also called simply a guy, is a tensioned cable designed to add stability to a freestanding structure.

8. AOL Mail

   mail.aol.com

   Get AOL Mail for FREE! Manage your email like never before with travel, photo & document views. Personalize your inbox with themes & tabs. You've Got Mail!

9. Transmission tower - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transmission_tower

   Transmission tower in Toronto, ON Single-circuit three-phase transmission line Transmission towers on a hill field. Three-phase electric power systems are used for high voltage (66- or 69-kV and above) and extra-high voltage (110- or 115-kV and above; most often 138- or 230-kV and above in contemporary systems) AC transmission lines.