Tag:line_attachment=suspension

line_attachment = suspension
Description
An underside continuous line is vertically hold by support using suspension sets involving clamps and sometimes insulators.
Group: infrastructure
Used on these elements
Useful combination
power=pole power=tower power=insulator
Status: approved
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Usage

See line_attachment=* for global guidelines on how use this key.

Regards a support where continuous underside line is hold by vertical suspension sets.
A Suspension set (466-12-03) is an assembly of strain link and a clamp to support a line/cable at the assembly lower end. Suspension supports aren't designed to preserve the line tension but the line isn't expected to move due to clamps. Insulators are used as link in case of bare power conductors.

A suspension has no moving part and usually prevent line to move longitudinally although this is not mandatory. This is the default type and doesn't need to be tagged. However it may be useful to tag a suspension support if it is used as an angle tower (an anchor tower would normally be expected here).

Possible mistakes

tower:type=suspension

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• tower:type=suspension

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pole:type=suspension

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• pole:type=suspension

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Examples

Power

Photo	Location	Tagging	Note
Suspension power tower	France	power=tower line_attachment=suspension	Power tower supporting a 400kV overhead power line with suspension attachement
	Austria	line_attachment=suspension	Here power cables are suspended without insulators on fixed support mounted on concrete walls directly.
	France	power=pole line_attachment=suspension material=wood	A suspension power pole supporting a power cable along a road

Telecoms

Photo	Location	Tagging	Note
	France	telecom=pole (Theoretically) line_attachment=suspension material=wood	A telecom pole made of wood where a cable is suspended along a road

Multi-utilities

Photo	Location	Tagging	Note
	France	power=pole line_attachment=(suspension)|(anchor) material=concrete	A pole can host several different configuration like this one. Suffixes help to give all details about line supported by the pole.

Misc

Photo	Location	Tagging	Note
	Germany	support=pole line_attachment=suspension material=wood	Wood post insulators supports live wires of electric fences. Despite the cable can move through the insulator, this is not a pulley but a suspension since there is no moving part in the support and it is not designed to follow line movement like an actual pulley does.