AstroElectric's photos with the keyword: arizona

Typical 1970's-80's APS switch pole. NOTE: This pole is no longer standing, since this section of the line has been put underground during 2013.

NOTE: This pole is no longer standing, since this section of the line has been put underground during 2013.

Galvanized steel toothpick brackets! Many utilities could learn a thing or two by using good ol' reliable and durable steel brackets again. APS stopped using these brackets around 25 years ago. NOTE: This pole is no longer standing, since this section of the line has been put underground during 2013.

From back when APS came out with awesome constructions! Brown insulators on new constructions of course weren't uncommon back in the 1970's, at least with APS. I like also how the pole top is stored on the back side of the pole versus the usual side mounting. NOTE: This pole is no longer standing, since this section of the line has been put underground during 2013.

An older 1970's era APS pole with the neutral used as a shield wire. Many of the outskirt sections in the Phoenix region (and other parts of Arizona) utilize this technique. NOTE: This pole is no longer standing, since this section of the line has been put underground during 2013 (up to where you see the traffic signal).

An UGLY, soulless post-2000 APS pole, though it's not a common APS specification if I recall, since they use mostly grey steel poles. TEP (Tucson Electric Power) has these same monstrosities popping up all over their grid. NOTE: This pole has since been removed since this section of the line has been put underground during 2013. Kind of ironic and a good thing to happen to this pole!

1980's SRP construction! I love these double-circuit composite line posts and even more on wooden poles. This pole is probably from about 1985. Also SRP used to have more lines with double-circuit wooden crossarms with suspensions but most of them are all gone. SRP switched to this type of armless construction in the mid-to-late 1960's, while still using crossarms for just slack span unfortunately until about the 1980's.

Some older mid-1980's double-circuit composite line post poles in the background. In the foreground, you've got the steel double-circuit polymer yuk posts. I never cared for those polymer post steel poles. Many lines of them now plague lines that once featured pre-1966 older crossarms poles with suspensions or composite line post poles. New 69kV poles are completely steel now as of the late 1990's-early 2000's. Polymer posts have been a standard since between 1994-97.