Yeah it's always been an option, there's just a good reason it's not usually picked. If you have the option to do a proper rebuild, reconductoring just has fewer benefits
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Any idea if vendors have roadmaps to address tech performance issues? Any sense if transmission customers have a lagging perception compared to state of the art offerings?
I mean, the problem with all the advanced conductors etc that I've seen is that they're all more complex, stiffer, harder to work with etc because of the different structure. Same is true of the self damping and T2 conductors from the last couple decades.
I don't see a way around these sorts of issues, or the fact that you have to completely change the splices, supports, tooling etc you use to work with these things. It's more like you have to accept that learning curve, so you wanna be DAMN sure it's worth it
It might? We've been burned before in this industry. I'm the 70s and 80s for example transmission companies all got sold on solid state relays to upgrade from the old electromechanical ones. Today we still have old EMs in service, but all the SSs had to get ripped out in the 90s
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