Re: Attention Michael Terrell - a question maybe ...

"Arfa Daily" <arfa.daily@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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On May 11, 8:33 pm, "Arfa Daily" <arfa.da...@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Michael

I know that you have had a long and very varied career in electronics.
Have
you ever had any experience with cable-suspended traffic lights in
Florida
or elsewhere in the USA ? Or anyone else on here even ? The question I
have
is not particularly repair related - more one of general interest
really, so
I'm happy for any responses to be direct off-group if it is felt more
appropriate by anyone.

Arfa

Tell us all, we can skip past it if we don't like it. This is an
eclectic group.

H. R.(Bob) Hofmann


OK then. Michael has already come back to me off-group with some useful
insights, but any others are of course appreciated. On one of my recent
visits to Florida, someone else in the car asked me the reasons for the
large cable loops either side of traffic lights which are suspended across
junctions on catenary wires rather than gantry or 'fishing pole' mounts.

I guessed perhaps drip loops, sophisticated strain relief, or maybe to
allow for cable breakage rewires, but I had to admit that I did not really
know, and that I would try to find out when I got back. So, does anyone
know for sure, or is it just that it's the way it's always been done, and
the real reasons are now just lost in signal repairman tradition ?

Arfa


I can't offer any real answers other than I've seen them done like that here
in Florida all my life.
All I can say during and after hurricanes I have seen traffic lights hanging
from their power wires
rather than the steel cable that they are supposed to be suspended from,
though I doubt this is
the reason for coiling the power wires up.

- Mike


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