The document describes TransPowr ACSS/TW bare overhead conductors. Key points:
1) ACSS/TW conductors have trapezoidal aluminum strands and a steel core, allowing more aluminum to be packed in while maintaining the same diameter as conventional conductors.
2) They can operate continuously at higher temperatures than conventional conductors and sag less under load.
3) ACSS/TW conductors are useful for reconductoring lines to increase capacity or building new lines where structures can be reduced due to lower sag.
The document describes TransPowr ACSS/TW bare overhead conductors. Key points:
1) ACSS/TW conductors have trapezoidal aluminum strands and a steel core, allowing more aluminum to be packed in while maintaining the same diameter as conventional conductors.
2) They can operate continuously at higher temperatures than conventional conductors and sag less under load.
3) ACSS/TW conductors are useful for reconductoring lines to increase capacity or building new lines where structures can be reduced due to lower sag.
The document describes TransPowr ACSS/TW bare overhead conductors. Key points:
1) ACSS/TW conductors have trapezoidal aluminum strands and a steel core, allowing more aluminum to be packed in while maintaining the same diameter as conventional conductors.
2) They can operate continuously at higher temperatures than conventional conductors and sag less under load.
3) ACSS/TW conductors are useful for reconductoring lines to increase capacity or building new lines where structures can be reduced due to lower sag.
The document describes TransPowr ACSS/TW bare overhead conductors. Key points:
1) ACSS/TW conductors have trapezoidal aluminum strands and a steel core, allowing more aluminum to be packed in while maintaining the same diameter as conventional conductors.
2) They can operate continuously at higher temperatures than conventional conductors and sag less under load.
3) ACSS/TW conductors are useful for reconductoring lines to increase capacity or building new lines where structures can be reduced due to lower sag.
Product Construction: Features and Benefits: Options:
TransPowr ACSS/TW conductors are similar to • E3X® surface coating (/E3X) Complete Conductor: conventional ACSR/TW conductors but have some • High-strength Class A zinc-5% aluminum TransPowr® ACSS/TW is a trapezoidal aluminum very important additional advantages. ACSS/TW mischmetal alloy-coated steel core (/MA3 to conductor steel-supported concentric-lay-stranded conductors can operate continuously at high ASTM B803) conductor. The aluminum strands are trapezoidal temperatures (up to 250°C) without damage. • Extra-high-strength Class A zinc-5% aluminum in shape. ACSS sags less than ACSR/TW under emergency mischmetal alloy-coated steel core (/MA4 to The wedge-shaped aluminum strands enable electrical loadings, it has self-damping properties, ASTM B958) a more compact alignment of the aluminum and its final sags are not affected by long-term • Ultra-high-strength Class A zinc-5% aluminum wires. Conductor designs that maintain the same creep of the aluminum. mischmetal alloy-coated steel core (/MA5 to circular mil cross-sectional area of aluminum ACSS/TW conductors constructed of equivalent ASTM B958) as a conventional round conductor result in a aluminum circular mil cross-sectional area provide • Aluminum-clad steel core (/AW) TW conductor that is 10 to 15 percent smaller in a conductor that is smaller in overall diameter • 250°C operating temperature rating utilizing overall diameter. Conductor designs that maintain than the equivalent conventional round wire ACSS either the zinc-5% aluminum mischmetal alloy- the same overall diameter as a conventional round conductor. The reduced conductor diameter is coated steel core wires or the aluminum-clad conductor result in a TW conductor that has 20 to advantageous in reducing the effects of ice and steel core wires 25 percent more aluminum cross-sectional area wind loading on the conductor. packed in. • Non-specular surface finish (/NS) ACSS/TW conductors constructed to be equivalent The ACSS/TW conductors are manufactured in overall diameter enable a greater circular mil accordance with the requirements of the latest cross-sectional area of aluminum within the issue of ASTM B857. conductor, reducing power loss in the conductor The steel strands form the central core of the for day-to-day operations as well as allowing a conductor, around which is stranded two, three or significant increase in conductor current-carrying four layers of aluminum 1350 O temper (annealed) capacity. wires. The steel core may consist of a concentric stranded cable of 7, 19 or more wires. Numerous Applications: combinations of aluminum and steel strands and Trapezoidal aluminum conductors steel-supported layers are possible. The sizes and constructions (ACSS/TW) are used for overhead transmission listed on the following pages are common lines. They are especially useful in reconductoring examples used in overhead lines. applications requiring increased current with existing tensions and clearances; new line Standard ACSS/TW designs are manufactured applications where structures can be economized with regular-strength Class A zinc-5% aluminum due to reduced sag; new line applications requiring mischmetal alloy-coated steel core (/MA2). high emergency loadings; and lines where aeolian vibration is a problem. Overhead Conductors Electric Utility
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