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Cable Abandonment LV.
T&D and a leading traffic company came to an agreement this week specifying Heat Shrink Live Pot End Kits (manufactured by Shrink Polymer Systems). The pot end kits will provide safe and effective cable abandonment for several thousand redundant 2 core low voltage XLPE SWA 16-35sqmm cables - this includes a mixture of street lighting power and motorway comms cables throughout the UK road network.
Traffic Master, the satellite-based tracking solutions provider for remote-based mobile assets, placed the order with T&D following successful field testing of samples.
Standard heat shrink end caps are often used to seal cable ends, however where cables are live, heat shrink live pot end kits should be used. Each core is separately sealed using small end caps and a screen bandage is applied to re-instate earth fault protection. Finally a thick wall outer heat shrink cap is applied marked with a live flash symbol.Kits are available for XLPE and PILC cables although any cable type can be abandoned, this includes LV-HV cable abandonment kits.
Utilising 3M Cold Shrink Kits, T&D also supply ongoing requirements with the offshore oil and gas industry for instrument cable abandonment and the underground rail industry for MI Pyrotenax cable abandonment.
More info - Heat Shrink Live Pot End Seals for Cable Abandonment
Category: LV Cable Jointing & Terminating