Example:

You are assigned to investigate the sag on a 795kcmil ACSR conductor that passes over a thoroughfare for delivery trucks.

You measure the line's height from the ground and find that it is just above the NESC recommended minimum height. Conductor sag and tension characteristics are dependent upon the conductor temperature, so you know you need to find out temperature of the conductor.

Without a way to directly measure the conductor temperature, you need a good method for calculating the conductor temperature using the current on the line and ambient weather conditions. With ThermCap, you can easily calculate the steady state conductor temperature if you know the current in the line and the ambient conditions.

Simply populate the required fields on ThermCap's three data entry tabs, and you can find the conductor temperature.