power lines

[Dan'scams]

power lines ? providing you dont run into them
do they effect anything while in flight
I would like to video my house but I have power lines across the front of my street in front of my house I would be about 20 feet away

 

[Meta4]

I would like to video my house but I have power lines across the front of my street in front of my house I would be about 20 feet away

Get close enough and they can affect the compass but at 20 ft from your low voltage domestic supply lines, you'll be fine.

 

[ZX14-R]

I believe even High Tension Power lines have little effect unless with 1-2m then ya may end up with a fried drone.

 

[Dan'scams]

so I worked up the nerve to fly from my house power lines an trees and all
the power lines seemed to have no effect

 

[Bill combs]

power lines ? providing you dont run into them
do they effect anything while in flight
I would like to video my house but I have power lines across the front of my street in front of my house I would be about 20 feet away

i believe it would depend on the amount of power lines i’ve launched from an area where the lines were l-shaped and had interference

 

[jwt873]

I've inadvertently flown very close to some high tension lines during a 'follow me' session. (Didn't realize it until I viewed the video after the fact). There were no ill effects.

I have a friend who flew close enough to touch a high voltage line. He almost got tangled on it, but managed to recover. Again, there were no issues.

 

[Caprimick]

Electricity can jump 2/3 Mtr under the right conditions from power lines generally best to give them as much room as possible.

 

[paulatkin73]

it depends upon what you call 'power lines'. a grid wire running at 250-500 kV will cause issues, your local hot wire to the local transformer on your street will not.

 

[Oconnb910]

No big deal in my experiences. I have flown along high tension power lines and regular neighborhood power lines and have not had any effect. I imagined since the drone is not grounded that electricity is not looking to travel through it.

 

[sar104]

Electricity can jump 2/3 Mtr under the right conditions from power lines generally best to give them as much room as possible.

That's true, but it will only jump to a conducting pathway. It won't jump to an airborne object.

 

[paul050079]

It will only travel to earth not across to an object that’s why birds can perch upon them

 

[hegauer]

Your outdoor powerlines works same as your indoor powerlines (same Voltage). They disturb your drone like indoor flying. I never had problems with indoor flying even powerlines near (< 1m) the drone.

 

[Thomas B]

Electricity can jump 2/3 Mtr under the right conditions from power lines generally best to give them as much room as possible.

But it will only jump if there is a ground or neutral phase close enough.

 

[The Editor]

That's true, but it will only jump to a conducting pathway. It won't jump to an airborne object.

Not strictly true - since the power lines are three phase AC, capacitive loading of the aircraft can cause discharge/arcing.

 

[sar104]

Not strictly true - since the power lines are three phase AC, capacitive loading of the aircraft can cause discharge/arcing.

The capacitance of the aircraft is negligibly small, so I don't understand what you are envisaging here.

 

[DanMan32]

For the high tension wires, it can possibly jump if you get between two wires of high enough different potential, or to ground wire/tower, even if you don't touch anything.

As for feeds to house, the wire from the transformer to your house is the same voltage as in your house. However there are higher voltage lines to that transformer.
A transformer often feeds one or two houses, so the line running down the block is higher.
Probably not high enough to cause issues though. It's not uncommon for overgrown trees to get near or even touch them without issue.

 

[jimlips]

I've flown along power lines a lot - when I get within about 1-2 meters, the aircraft would tend to drift one way or another. I blamed it on the magnetic field around the power line. Note that these were 5 to 30KV lines, so I'm sure they had some current running through them which would cause a small electromagnetic field.

I even tried tried to fly directly over the lines, and found it nearly impossible, no matter how hard I tried. It kept drifting.

 

[paulatkin73]

The capacitance of the aircraft is negligibly small, so I don't understand what you are envisaging here.

A hypothetical interference from a 500kv line into compass and other electronics. Not highly probable, but possible. Like flying in the working microwave.

 

[zzxrox]

 

[TR Ganey]