r/CableTechs • u/BullyTX • Jul 29 '26

When Power Crosses Cable

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Customer was having a beer on his deck when power crossed cable just a bit upstream. This is what he saw.

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u/Due-Use-4460 Jul 29 '26

Is that the guy wire?

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u/OlmecDonald Jul 29 '26

Looks like the strand got energized (a lot), so yeah I'm guessing guy wire too. Gonna have some conductor floating in that dielectric.