whats those things on the telephone lines....?

[jkoXP]

every 2 miles or so, i see these... round circular type things on my phone lines... everywhere. and theres 2 of them together. it looks like the things youd see at the end of your stereo antenna....

 

[DaiShan]

not sure what your talking about, repeaters maybe? and on a side note, don't do drugs kids.

 

[yakko]

The spheres or the disks?

 

[N8Magic]

 

[BrunoPuntzJones]

You sure you're not talkin about transformers on power lines?

Transformer

Converts DC electricity from the source to AC for your house I THINK. I may be off, I'm not real good at electrical stuff

 

[N8Magic]

Either load coils to add inductance to the line which allows calls to be placed on LONG local loops without echoes or squealing, or repeaters which regenerate data signals so they can be sent long distances over copper.

 

[yakko]

<< Either load coils to add inductance to the line which allows calls to be placed on LONG local loops without echoes or squealing, or repeaters which regenerate data signals so they can be sent long distances over copper. >>

So good you had to post it twice.

 

[jkoXP]

they look like they're metal, but hollow

like a loop.... i was hopin it was some kind of wireless repeater or somthing

 

[jkoXP]

<< You sure you're not talkin about transformers on power lines?

Transformer

Converts DC electricity from the source to AC for your house I THINK. I may be off, I'm not real good at electrical stuff >>



nope none of those...

 

[silverpig]

<<Converts DC electricity from the source to AC for your house I THINK. I may be off, I'm not real good at electrical stuff>>


Transformers don't do that. And the power that both your house uses, and the power station puts out are AC. Transformers take high voltage, low current power in the lines, and transform it to low voltage, high current power for your house.

 

[Evadman]

Take pics man, there are lots of things on lines everywhere.

 

[jkoXP]

yea im going to have to sometime, maybe monday night if i have some time.

 

[N8Magic]

<< yea im going to have to sometime, maybe monday night if i have some time. >>



You take a pic, i'll tell you what it is. I work with this kind of stuff all the time.

 

[kamiam]

you guys are CRAZY..those "balls" are there to "mark" the lines so helicopters can "see" the lines and 1 not run into them and 2n so the power co helo can "see" the line so they can inspect it

 

[BrunoPuntzJones]

<< <<Converts DC electricity from the source to AC for your house I THINK. I may be off, I'm not real good at electrical stuff>>


Transformers don't do that. And the power that both your house uses, and the power station puts out are AC. Transformers take high voltage, low current power in the lines, and transform it to low voltage, high current power for your house. >>

Thanks for clearing it up, like I said I had no clue, just knew what the boxes are called