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Electric Utility Engineers who design and maintain transmission lines face many challenges including weak, soft soils that can’t bear much weight and aggressive soil that corrodes metal. Whether you are facing Virginia’s Coastal Plain or western Colorado’s Mancos Shale, CHANCE® offers protection to ensure the helical foundations and anchors beneath transmission towers will function properly and withstand the test of time.

Distribution lines can face harsh conditions. If standard products aren’t doing the job and you need more protection for your standoff brackets and guy strains, look no further. Here are four reasons to switch to silicone-coated fiberglass construction products:

It is well-documented that the best method for predicting the capacity of helical piles and anchors is to measure the installation torque. Accurate torque measurements are crucial to calculate the load capacity or holding capacity.

It’s a bittersweet moment to look back on an event like the 36th Annual International Lineman’s Rodeo & Expo and to realize that for all the preparation and hard work, the event is done. The best linemen in the world brought their best to compete, and, for the rest of us, we watched and admired their skill, speed, and strength.

The Insulators Business Unit at Hubbell Power Systems, Inc. strives to provide innovative solutions to the changing needs of our customers. In our effort to provide a complete line of products that deliver strength and quality, we are excited to announce the development and launch of our new product, the MITY-Lite® Line Post Insulator. The MITY-Lite joins the already existing 69kV Veri*Lite™ Line Post product line that our customers are familiar with and depend on. 

Electric utility operating system reliability is an important factor of utility performance. As a common practice, distribution arresters are assembled with a ground lead disconnector (GLD) designed to respond to arrester fault current during a short by detonation of a cartridge inside of the disconnector housing.

Responding to concerns that conventional brackets were difficult to install, Hubbell Power Systems, Inc. engineers designed a crossarm bracket that saves time, improves safety, and offers a better fit. The Hubbell Easy-On Crossarm Mounting Brackets are used for mounting cutouts, arresters, cable terminators, or cutout-arrester combinations to a distribution pole crossarm.

Save time and money spent lowering the oil level in the transformer, when replacing higher current bushings, by specifying the PCORE® Electric Company, Inc. Quick-Link bushing.

In 1999, PCORE launched the first Quick-Link bushings that allowed electric utilities to save costs by significantly reducing transformer outage time. The design was further expanded to 115kV and 138kV in 2017. PCORE’s Paper-Resin-Capacitor (PRC) and Paper-Oil-Capacitor (POC) Quick-Link bushings have the following benefits:

CHANCE® meters are used to detect line voltage, determine approximate phase-to-phase-voltage, check DC resistance in protective grounding sets, determine in-or-out of phase relationships, monitor leakage currents, and advise the operating condition of CHANCE hot sticks. Calibration of these meters is important in confirming their accuracy in the field and ultimately in helping to protect line personnel.

Incorrect meter readings could result in undetected or misread voltages that could be harmful to equipment and personnel.

The PCORE® SET-Terminal is designed for use with field dielectric test equipment for more accurate, faster, and safer field power factor measurement of apparatus insulation at a substantial savings.

PCORE Electric launched the SET-Terminal in 2011 as an addition to their test terminal line. The SET-Terminal provided improvements from the traditional porcelain test terminal that has been used by utilities since the 1950’s.  

Benefits of the SET-Terminal include:

• A faster testing process.
• Safer testing for test technicians.
• Less expensive testing because of less labor hours and equipment down time.