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  Long-distance anchor pylon information - Search.com
A long distance anchor pylon is an anchor pylon at the end of a line section with a long span.
Long distance anchor pylons must be very stably built due to the large weight of the exceptionally long cables.
In extreme cases long distance anchor pylons are constructed in pairs, each supporting only a single cable, in an effort to reduce the strain of large spans.
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  Electricity pylon - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Pylons used for single phase AC railway traction lines are similar in construction to pylons used for 110 kV-three phase lines.
anchor pylons (or strainer pylons) utilize horizontal insulators and occur at the endpoints of conductors.
Support pylons (or suspension pylons) occur along the route of a conductor between anchor pylons, and keep the conductor suspended with vertical strings of insulators.
www.wikipedia.org /wiki/Electrical_pylon   (1393 words)

  
 Switch pylon Definition / Switch pylon Research   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Anchor pylons are additionally employed at branch points as branch pylonsA branch pylon is a pylon for the realization of a line branch.
Therefore, anchor pylons tend to be more stably built than a support pylon and are often used, particularly in older construction, when the power line must cross a large gap, such as a railwayRail transport refers to the land transport of passengers and goods along railways or railroads.
Anchor pylons may additionally have a circuit breakerA circuit breaker is a piece of equipment which is designed to protect an electrical apparatus from damage caused by overload or short circuit.
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 Encyclopedia: Long distance anchor pylon
A long distance anchor pylon is an anchor pylon at the end of a line section with large span.
With long distance anchor pylons the distances of the conductor cables are increased in relation to the usual values, in order a smashing together of the conductor cables in the storm, which can lead to short-circuits to prevent.
Long distance anchor pylons must be very stably built because of the high traction powers in the conductor cables.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Long-distance-anchor-pylon   (183 words)

  
 Cruser Scout - Ch 3
When we arrived in Long Beach in the spring of 1940, we found that the ship was scheduled to go to the Puget Sound Navy Yard in Seattle for an extensive overhaul.
Long Beach was a fun place to be in the summer of 1940.
His brother in Long Beach took care of the insurance settlement and the balance of the payments and I never saw the car again.
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 Pylon biography .ms   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Pylons at which sections of conductor cables start or finish are called guyed pylons, as they need anchor wires to apply support equal to the weight of the conductors on the opposite side.
The pylons are often wood or concrete with metal crossbeams.
In the artificial lake of Santa Maria in Switzerland a 47 metre high anchor pylon for one circuit of a 380 kV-line was built on 28 metres high concrete columns.
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 physics - Long distance anchor pylon
A long distance anchor pylon is an anchor pylon at the end of a line section with a long span.
Long distance anchor pylons must be very stably built due to the large weight of the exceptionally long cables.
In extreme cases long distance anchor pylons are constructed in pairs, each supporting only a single cable, in an effort to reduce the strain of large spans.
www.physicsdaily.com /physics/Long_distance_anchor_pylon   (101 words)

  
 Patent 4272835: Master buoy system for acoustic array deployment, using underwater glide bodies remotely launched from ...
anchoring the freed hydrophones as the radially disposed vehicles rest on the bottom of the body of water and the freeing of the hydrophones is the buoying up of them from the radially disposed vehicles.
An anchor tether 12a is payed out from a spool, not shown, on the bottom side of the center body portion while a float line 13a extends from the top of the center body portion.
The length of the anchor tether particularly is critical since this governs the height of the glide bodies from the bottom and, hence, the limits of their spatial distribution.
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 Pylon   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Pylon is the Greek term for monumental gate or doors built in front of an Egyptian temple and consisting of the two towers the entrance between them.
In ancient Egypt temples the Pylon is the gateway to the inner part.
In the first example the first Pylon of the temple of Isis at Philae is shown.
www.arikah.net /encyclopedia/Hochspannungsmast   (188 words)

  
 Networking and Network Security   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Sometimes on pylons (in particular on steel framework pylons for the highest voltage levels) also transmitting plants are installed.
In Switzerland a pylon of the NOK inclined around 20 degrees to the vertical is located in the proximity of Sargans.
Support pylons (or suspension pylons) occur along the route of a conductor between anchor pylons, and keep the conductor suspended with vertical strings of
www.subnetworking.com /wiki/Pylons   (1306 words)

  
 Pylon   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Pylons at which sections of conductor cables start or finish are called guyed pylons, as they need guy wires to apply support equal to the weight of the conductors on the opposite side.
Pylons for low-voltage (Operating voltage up to 1000 V) In low-voltage systems, three-phase AC systems are always used operating as a four conductor (Wye) system (the neutral conductor is always implemented as a separate conductor).
In the artificial lake of Santa Maria in Switzerland a 47 meter high anchor pylon for one circuit of a 380kV-line was built on 28 meters high concrete columns.
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 Broadmining: Pylon   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
If the pylon is just one in a continuous chain it is termed a suspension pylon as the conductors can be held by suspending them on vertical strings of insulators.
Pylons at which sections of conductor start, finish or change direction are called strainer pylons.
anchor wires to counterbalance the weight of the conductors on the opposite side or be designed to deal with the forces imposed on them.
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 Search and Rescue - SAR Seamanship Reference Manual - Chapter 5
Beam refers to the distance from the outside of the hull on one side of the boat to the outside of the hull on the opposite side of the boat at the widest part of the hull.
Breadth refers to the distance from the outside of a frame on one side of the boat to the outside of the same numbered frame on the opposite side of the boat.
An anchor is a device which is lowered to the sea bottom to secure the boat to the bottom and prevent it from drifting from its position.
www.coast-guard.gc.ca /sar/nsm-msn/ichapter_05_e.htm   (11389 words)

  
 Bandwidth Market, Ltd   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
It should be noted that the provision of access to the interior of the cover 11 permits the user to select how many and what type of plugs 20 and cables 21 are desired for the type of transmission (simplex or duplex) to be performed thereby.
The receptacle 33 is provided with a protruding pylon 35 which is received in a through-bore formed in the circuit board 34.
In addition, pylon 35 may be glued, soldered, or otherwise attached to circuit board 34.
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 Georgia Collectible Clock   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Cheap Long Distance Rate - Cheap Long Distance Rate Long-distance operator - In telephony, the long-distance operator is available to assist with making long-distance telephone calls, answering billing questions, making collect calls, and other functions including emergency assistance.
The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner - The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner is a short story by Alan Sillitoe, as well as the name of the collection in which the story has been published.
Long distance anchor pylon - A long distance anchor pylon is an anchor pylon at the end of a line...
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 Hosstory
The relationship between distance, time, and life are all interlinked and the first one as sure as damn it depends on the second.
You travel for 3.4 years, which in distance is 19.9433664 trillion miles give or take a foot or two in real terms, to this nearest star, and there orbiting it at approximately 93 million miles is a beautiful and promising blue planet.
The vicar by this time was long gone, his prayers not being answered he had thrown off his gown and legged it, renouncing his faith, and instantly becoming an atheist.
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 “YUNITRAN” RESEARCH CENTER
The minimal distance between cargo modules along the line is 50 m (50...100 m is the minimal urgency deceleration by throwing out a braking parachute), hence the ultimate traffic capacity of a single line at a speed 300 km/h is 24 thous.
For example, a single-track route as long as a railway can be erected from the materials of just a single rail and each third sleeper (the railway has still the second rail and 2/3 of sleepers, the contact grid, rail conduits, viaducts, etc.).
The so-called “transport niches” are implied defining the range of distances and speeds at which a transport means provides passengers with the utmost comfort and speed all with the least energy losses.
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The whole operation was covered by long range fire from the better shots, usually the older men, in the rear, which served to keep the defenders' heads down.
He rushed back to the mission station and immediately prepared it for defence: a long stone wall with loopholes was hastily constructed in front of the buildings on the side facing the river, and behind it, a second barricade was built of bags of mealies and biscuit tins between the opposite corners of the buildings.
The eastern anchor of Wood's position was a redoubt - a ditch with the earth thrown up inside to form a parapet - which was connected by a palisade to a small laager of wagons on a flat below it, which was used as a kraal for the transport oxen.
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 VPNAVY - Black Cats Summary Page - VP Patrol Squadron
The memorable incident, one of many in the long, colorful history of the PBY, took place in an unlikely but lucky location for a seaplane, despite it being a desert in Texas.
Suddenly, the staccato coughs of powerful engines coming to life were heard, and then a full-throated roar rent the air as a giant, yellow-winged, two-motored airboat cast loose from her moorings and headed for the entrance of the bay where she would have a two-mile run.
Two squadrons of this wing were retained on the East Coast, the remaining two returning to San Diego by way of NAS Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, NAS Coco Solo, Panama, Canal Zone and the Gulf of Fonseca, leaving NAS Norfolk, Virginia on May I and arriving San Diego May 10.
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 FirstStar LED
Although testing over open water has verified that our LED navigation lights do have the required visibility when used in the correct fixtures for their designed application and are as bright or brighter than many certified incandescent lights, our lights are not presently certified by any authority.
In the photo shown, both the anchor light (upper all-round white segment) and the tri-color (lower red-green) are shown lit off at the same time for the purpose of illustrating where the segments are in relationship to each other.
Due to the extreme conditions that off-shore long distance race boats impose on the fixtures causing sea water intrusion and repeated immersions and drying cycles while electrical power is applied, the industry standard bulb bases have a relatively high incidence of failure due to corrosion.
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 NOVA Online | Mysteries of the Nile | An Archaeologist's Perspective
But it implies a very long, a very long length of rope, a lot of twisting, and some kind of a platform where all this can be carried out.
They were the same thickness as a railroad tie, and it wasn't just the fact that the levers were getting too high for the men to grab hold of, it was also that maybe six inches from their butt end, the levers are snapping like toothpicks.
Question: It might be easier to slide the obelisk down a concrete ramp to the anchor stone rather than drop it, using sand and creating guess work.
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 Dictionary of Bridges
The staying or suspending bridge element; in modern suspension bridges, the main supporting cable is hung from towers, and formed from steel wire bound in strands.
An early 20th-century theory that very long suspension bridges would remain stable without deep stiffening trusses through a balance between flexibility and self-weight.
A cable-stayed bridge design in which cables radiate at a uniform distance from each other throughout their length.
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 Windwards (southbound)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
By the time I finally found a number (that was charged long distance to our home number) that didn't cut me off, Visa was experiencing a high call volume and I waited a very long time while six people stood in line outside the phone booth.
As a result we anchored off the dockyard, just a stones throw from the cemetery and the crypts which were lit up brighter than the town that night.
We had thought we might anchor there for a bit but when we got close by it appeared to be surrounded by reefs so we decided against stopping.
www.purrfectpassage.com /windward_islands_(southbound).htm   (16140 words)

  
 Fishing in South Carolina on Winyah Bay, Cape Hatteras, North Inlet, DeBordieu, Santee
In a glass case there is a 15-foot long marlin that was caught out of that marina.
A large scuba diving boat was anchored rather far away but we looked out to port and saw this woman wearing a scuba gear waving her arms.
  For a long time she would ask me, "Elliott, are you a Christian?"  Being someone who is direct and opinionated I would say "no".
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 Newlands Bed & Breakfast - Local Walks   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Take a bearing up the steep fell side ahead to the anchor-pylon at the end of the line of electricity pylons and follow the wide path up through the bracken and scrubby thorn trees along this line of sight.
Pass by this last pylon some yards to your left and continue up the slope to the ridge top.
The line of trees is continual on your right patchy on your left; remain with the path and gradually walk downhill at a shallow angle.
www.newlandscartmel.co.uk /walks.html   (2392 words)

  
 Long distance anchor pylon
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 Wikipedia:Requested pictures - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Pylons of Messina (a picture of the pylons, similar to that on http://www.structurae.net/structures/data/photos.cfm?ID=s0012110, not a satellite picture of strait of Messina)
The current image with the pith helmet is great, and should remain, but the pith helmet hasn't been regulation for a long time methinks.
I am looking for a picture for five different styles of beer in a bar setting, say, a glass of Stout, Bitter, Lager, Hefeweizen, and Helles.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Wikipedia:Requested_pictures   (5270 words)

  
 [No title]
Further, in countries whose populations are largely rural even to this day, and whose countrysides are spotted with towns and villages unable to support a local radio station during the first decades of AM radio, shortwave was the perfect vehicle of reaching the population.
The ascendancy of FM radio has changed that; most nations have their own satellite systems, and it is no long economically impossible for national and regional networks to piggyback a signal up to the bird and then have it downloaded by small rural FM stations to broadcast to the surrounding town and country.
Less than a mile's distance from the antenna tower are large cargo cranes for the Port Of Fernandina, about three blocks away to the westerly-northwesterly direction.
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 Po 297 & Po 298 Rocklands Station   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
The route is so long and circuitous that no one in their right mind would persist with it.
It is only 45-60 minutes biking distance, and a lot longer on foot, from the yards to the transmission line road.
There is a huge block of country centred on the Ship at Anchor that awaits exploration for day or weekend tramping trips Greater availability to the public would also open the area up for x/c skiing.
www.publicaccessnewzealand.org /files/po297_298_rocklands.html   (9597 words)

  
 Poems   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
But everyone says But and the longed-for love is shut out of justification delays the life of another Nation.
Deadman speaks -------------- knowing you live on she's one constellation yet such a lone way Innocence is but pretence ------------------------- Shatter an Halo on a crow's nest of thorns and look down the long aching chasm forlorn whence pours the unquenchable fever the fluttering itching ashes a-bleever which drop from the air's ruptured skin.
Toolbox] ------- We are as one people of a kind You sing a long playing radio behind they remind that it's breaking my head in two breaking into a box of tools, breaking...
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