Article | REF: D4423 V1

Overhead lines: equipment - Insulators

Author: Xavier DUCOURET

Publication date: February 10, 2004

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6. Choice

6.1 General

The insulators are selected :

  • as a function of line operating voltage ;

  • depending on the mechanical stresses to which they are subjected (weight of conductors and ice, wind action, mechanical tension of conductors, if any) ;

  • with regard to their nature (rigid or suspended), depending on the cost of the line and its size; in general, for small cross-sections (< 50 mm 2 ), a line on rigid insulators is less expensive than a line on suspended insulators, at least in regions not subject to significant climatic overloads;

  • depending on site pollution.

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