Fibre optics on power lines

Roger B over 3 years ago

The latest online piece from E&T magazine informs us that Facebook Engineering has developed a system for wrapping fibre optic cables around overhead power lines.

https://eandt.theiet.org/content/articles/2020/07/robot-wraps-fibre-optic-cables-around-existing-power-lines/

This technique was actually developed by Raychem in the early 1980s and since then thousands of km have been installed.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optical_attached_cable

The product line is know owned by AFL

https://www.aflglobal.com/Products/Fiber-Optic-Cable/Aerial/Skywrap.aspx

Best regards

Roger

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0 Johno12345 over 3 years ago

I guess we are talking about the same one Mariner, I went to BICC at Helsby and they showed me the fibre optic wrapped around the top conductor on what I think were 132kV lines that ran past our school, you could see it spiral wound and I can remember spotting it all over when we went places, probably en route to Liverpool, ICI etc
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0 Johno12345 over 3 years ago

I guess we are talking about the same one Mariner, I went to BICC at Helsby and they showed me the fibre optic wrapped around the top conductor on what I think were 132kV lines that ran past our school, you could see it spiral wound and I can remember spotting it all over when we went places, probably en route to Liverpool, ICI etc
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