Triplex overhead electrical service cable are a type of overhead cable and wire that is twisted around a single uninsulated steel or aluminum cable. If you have this type of overhead cable near your home, utility company, telecom company or commercial building, the Line Guard product will fit properly around and on your Triplex overhead cable and wire through a few adjustments.
The customer who took this video had their power line technician make these few adjustments when installing the Line Guard. The Line Guard rollers are designed to be cut back on each end. First, he widened the openings of the Line Guard rollers so they could better fit the power line. Typically, just cutting off ¼” from each end of the rollers, PRIOR to assembling the halves together, creates a large enough opening. From there, the power line technician wrapped the Triplex cable and wire with split plastic conduit and electrical tape at the point where the rollers would spin on the line, increasing the ease of rotation.
A note of caution – if the openings of the rollers are not cut back enough, the roller will not spin freely on the triplex. It is important to make sure the opening is larger than the total diameter of the Triplex. Typically, a 1.5” – 2.0” diameter opening is sufficient. However, the rollers can still be effective with even larger openings, up to a maximum of 3.0”.