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To: HiTech RedNeck
“Tension” and voltage are equivalent terms, with voltage more quantitative and tension more qualitative in connotation.

No. High Tension lines are literally installed under high tension, mechanical strain, to reduce sag between supports.

They tend to increase together as the higher voltage insulator supports get more and more expensive as the voltage goes up. So the economics of longer spans with corresponding tensions tends to go up with voltage. But water, road and other physicals constraints also justify higher tension and longer span construction.

50 posted on 11/26/2012 9:39:48 AM PST by thackney (life is fragile, handle with prayer)
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To: thackney

Well, both. There is a valid term called “electric(al) tension” which means the same thing as electrical potential or voltage.


52 posted on 11/26/2012 10:02:13 AM PST by HiTech RedNeck (How long before all this "fairness" kills everybody, even the poor it was supposed to help???)
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