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Electric power line phase conductor (line) monitoring system in which a single measuring station can measure all the power parameters of voltage and current and phase angle plus ambient and line temperatures. The measuring station fastens to the line, typically draws power from the line, is small, light, and manually installed without the need for a line power outage. The measured data is transmitted from the measuring station up on the power line phase conductor to a ground receiving and data processing station by either radio or a fiber optic cable or an optical-through-air data link. Each type of data link, fiber optic, radio or optical-through-air, can be built to carry either analog (linear) or digital data. Line true RMS voltage and true RMS current values, line phase angle, along with ambient and line temperature values are digitized and transmitted in digital form through a digital data link. Real time analog voltage and current sinusoidal waveforms are transmitted in analog form through a linear data link with only group delay which for a 50-foot long fiber optic cable would be roughly only 50 nanoseconds. Voltage data is obtained by an elegantly simple voltage divider technique which takes advantage of the highly dielectric character of plastic and glass materials in general and fiber optic cables in particular to form a dual purpose unibody cable assembly containing both the optical fibers of the data link and the large resistance resistive link of the voltage divider. Resistive link materials are described which have high precision resistance tolerance and low temperature coefficients of resistance, and thus improve the accuracy of the voltage sensor by establishing precisely the total resistance of the resistive link and by minimizing changes in the magnitude of that resistance due to changes in ambient temperature.

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