Westar Stringing Equipment & New H-frame
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Douglas G. Schema

Westar Stringing Equipment & New H-frame
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Westar Stringing Equipment & New H-frame
East of Wichita, Kansas is a newly constructed 69-kV transmission line which is now being built for 138-kV operation. Note the new H-Frame which is equipped temporarily with stringing hardware on the ends of suspension insulators and the tension stringing equipment for line conductors below. Line stringing is not done one conductor at a time; this would cause unequal bending movements in structure supports and would cause catostropic failure at attachments. Instead, all conductors, including static or Overhead Ground Wires (OWGs) are strung in concert, avoiding any unequal bending or snagging which might endanger personnel or traffic on the highway paralleling this newer line. Original line is a wooden single pole Z-structure circuit operating at 69-kV. Switchyard is located east of Wichita, Kansas on U. S. 75. It is operated by Westar-Energy, Inc. of Topeka.