Transmaster
Don't Blame Me I Voted For Bill and Opus
join:2001-06-20
Cheyenne, WY
 ·Qwest.net
2 edits | Re: Plastic gas pipes
WVG, Wireless Via GAS |
--
The older I get the more I prefer the company of my dogs over that of man kind. | |
|
 
ARGONAUT
got ping?
join:2006-01-24
New Albany, IN | Re: Plastic gas pipes "Whiff-WiFi" 
I think there using the plastic as jacketing to stop signal bleeding like coaxial cable. | |
|
 | 
Bobcat
Premium
join:2001-02-04
Bedminster, NJ | Re: Plastic gas pipes I found out that plastic gas pipes are supposed to have a wire running alongside them, so the utility location folks can find the line. They must be using the wire to send the signal. | |
|
| | keyboard5684
join:2001-08-01
Youngsville, PA | Re: Plastic gas pipes They have a wire for grounding out electricity that builds up from gas moving through the pipe. Gas moving through gas lines creates electricity and needs dissipated. | |
|
| | | Tom517
join:2006-07-13
Greenville, SC | Re: Plastic gas pipes Actually the wire is there so the gasline can be located with metal detectors. | |
|
| | | | 
vpoko
Premium
join:2003-07-03
Jamaica Plain, MA
| Re: Plastic gas pipes said by Tom517  :Actually the wire is there so the gasline can be located with metal detectors. Ehh? Why would they want people locating them with metal detectors? "Ooh, I think I found a treasure, better get a pick axe and dig it up!" | |
|
| | | | | 
printscreen
join:2003-11-01
Juana Diaz, PR
 ·Choice Cable TV
·Coqui/PRTC
| Re: Plastic gas pipes said by vpoko :Ehh? Why would they want people locating them with metal detectors? For the service people to find the exact location of the pipe without digging. This is done with water pipes also but I have seen them using a metallic tape similar to the one placed above buried power and telephone lines instead of a wire. | |
|
| | | | | Tom517
join:2006-07-13
Greenville, SC | It's actually not that easy to find with the average metal detector; which is why, most of the time, they put an RF signal on the wire.  | |
|
|
|
|
