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Mysterious Triangles

#119226 12/11/04 11:58 PM

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Since I moved to Lynden, Washington a while back I have spotted these triangle thingies at significant angle points of pole wire runs- I've never seen these anywhere else before. What purpose do they serve? My guesses:

1) Devices for minimizing corona effects;
2) "Slow-Moving Electron" signs;
3) Metric electron discharge devices to rid the lines of those metric electrons that somehow got through the Metric/English convertors at the US/Canadian border [Linked Image]

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4) Something else.

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Re: Mysterious Triangles

#119227 12/12/04 01:29 AM

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As a wild guess, something to keep birds/critters off of the crossarms/lines?

Stupid should be painful.

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#119228 12/12/04 10:41 AM

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Are they only on angle structures?

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#119229 12/12/04 03:09 PM

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That is where I've spotted them- it seems to me that I may have seen some of these on one pole which was on a straight portion. But that was a definite exception.

No wire bias here- I'm standing on neutral ground.