Experimental Verification of the Proposed IEEE Performance and Testing Standard for

ADSS Fiber Optic Cable for Use on Electric Utility Power Lines
George Karady1, Essam Al-Ammar1, Baozhuang Shi2, Monty W. Tuominen3
1
Arizona State University, 2Shanghai Longyuan Zhiguang Electrical Inc., 3Bonneville Power Administration
All Dielectric Self Supporting (ADSS) fiber-optic
cable jackets are subject to dry band arcing associated with wet, conductive pollution, quantified electrically by
ohms per meter, in conjunction with the location of the ADSS in relation to conductor placement on high-voltage
transmission structures. In order to determine the suitability of a particular ADSS jacket material to resist dry band
arc damage in various levels of pollution as well as for incipient voltage levels, an electrical test, employing
equivalency to the dry band environment, has been proposed. A set of desirable hypothetical results are briefly
discussed. The tests results described herein, for common polyethylene jacketed ADSS, support the nature of the
hypothetical data. It is noted that this is not pass-fail but a test that stablishes performance criteria. It has been
submitted to the fiber optics standards working group.

1-4244-0493-2/06/$20.00 2006 IEEE.