What are those orange balls hanging from power lines?

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asked Nov 20, 2017 in Other-Home/Garden by Prigen (12,000 points)
What are those orange balls hanging from power lines?

I drove by a power line today and saw a orange ball looking thing hanging from the high voltage power line?

I've never noticed them before until today when I drove to another town down a road I've never been on before.

Anyone know what those orange ball looking things on high voltage power lines are for?

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answered Nov 21, 2017 by Shawn (99,990 points)
Those orange balls hanging from power lines are just markers to alert a plane that there is a high voltage power line there.

That is so the plane won't hit it if it's flying too low.

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