If I remember correctly, you are now trapped there until you trick someone else into taking your spot.
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The effing tower.
Everyone who sees anything on this picture... Are you sure you are not enemy stand users?
Fun fact: You can estimate the voltage by the length of the insulators. My guess is this is around 100kV (2x 3 phase circuits), around the border of transmission and distribution voltages.
You can also estimate the capacity by the number of conductors per phase. This has a pair of lines for each phase, so a fair chunk, but not the 3 or 4 conductors you sometimes see (although maybe you mainly see that on higher transmission voltages.
Ooh a lightning sorcerer...
There are some who call him: Tim?
It will be 128 kV or 345 kV.
The more I look at it I think it might be a 132kV line on a 400kV tower, with the intention to upgrade it some time in the future. I say this because the insulators aren't actually the full length of the spacing from the tower, there's a separator between the tower and the start of the insulator fins. This makes me think they've left room for longer 400kV insulators to be installed.
Saying that though I have no idea, there could have been all sorts of other considerations that led to a configuration like that.
OP appears to be in the UK, so potentially (no pun intended) one of 400kV, 275kV, or 132kV.
That pun was totally intended, and I cannot fault you for it.
I was thinking 132kV, but wasn't sure if this is Europe where you might find 100kV (although again it varies by country). In the UK, 132kV is the boundary between distribution and transmission. DNO's (Distribution Network Operators) generally use 11kV, 33kV, 66kV (generally rare but used in some areas eg in North West England) and 132kV, TNO's (Transmission) use 132kV, 275kV and 400kV. Although, a lot of 275kV substations are built to 400kV spec (eg in Scotland), so that they can upgrade in the future.
You sometimes get this with power lines, they might install higher voltage insulators then run it at a lower voltage until some time later when the network is upgraded. This spoils the game of guess the voltage/makes it more challenging, and you end up with really weird looking connections between large pylons and small poles.
According to the national grid map this is a 275kv line so there you go :)
no pun intended
None taken.
I have a similar photo.
i work for a utility company, we got even simpler ones on the wall 😄
That's some hot centerfolds
Wait until you happen to visit to Risti, Estonia, where a mast named Soorebane inhabits an intersection of some country roads. :)
Of course, it's an artsy decorative exception for where a high voltage line must cross through a public place. In all other places, ordinary lattice grid masts.
The ThePyroPython Pylon
Seems like something we should construct more of
Are we sharing pylons?
Far over the misty pylons tall
I like pictures like this, shows that the person who took it is somewhat creative and thinks out of the box.
thinks out of the box.
or inside the pylon
Lmao yes indeed
I like when something usually considered just background becomes interesting.
I like geometric patterns :)
Looking up an electricity pylon's skirt.
That looks super neat.
Straight out of Dr. Strange
Did you get a buzzing sensation being under it?
Looks like part of a space station orbiting a water planet
Damn, now I can't unsee it!
Did you also get to see the Mona Lisa?
Damn I’ve always wanted to stop along the highway and get a shot like this. Great pic. Thank you
This, this I like.
- escape route?
- thermal starter?
- timer?
- thermite?
- battery?
...good luck!
do we need more of them?
You must construct additional Pylons
Love this perspective shot.