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Lineworkers will ground/earth the line with a very good connection (e.g. metal rod into the ground) before working on it, as far as I know. (At least, this is
by Symbiote 1y ago
Lineworkers will ground/earth the line with a very good connection (e.g. metal rod into the ground) before working on it, as far as I know.
(At least, this is what electricians working with 33kV in industry in Europe do, e.g. if doing maintenance on a cable to a datacentre.)
- rtkwe 1y agoI haven't seen them doing that on power outage post storm line repairs near me, usually during those they're working as fast as possible because they have dozens of other spots they need to repair.
- BenjiWiebe 1y agoHopefully they're bonding the line to their bucket at least.
- rtkwe 1y agoProbably I've just not seen them ever drive in a ground rod while doing basic line repair work.