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    Underground Cable Testing

    What test is to be conducted prior termination of 11 kV HV cable?
    • laxmi
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    • cable termination testing underground
    • Replies: 8
    • Forum: UK Electrical Forum
  2. R

    installing 1.5 armoured cable, need termination advice please

    I am replacing a 1.5 internal cable that was run temporarily to give a constant on feed to,my new boiler, as the previous one didn't require this. Unfortunately the only route this could take was from a bedroom ceiling through the floor to the boiler downstairs. I intend running a 1.5 armoured...
    • reddwarf4ever
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    • 1.5 advice armoured cable installing please termination
    • Replies: 51
    • Forum: UK Electrical Forum
  3. B

    Leaking SWA termination on panel board?

    Hello I'm currently installing in a large house and the supply cable to the MCCB panel board is leaking a black bitumen type substance were the cable is terminated underneath. has anybody come across this before and is this a reason to be concerned?
  4. M

    High Conductivity SWA Armour Termination

    We've just been snagged on a cable installation for a machine on a mine. It's a 185mm ECC SWA with high conductivity armour, basically 1 in 5 of the armour strands is copper. We terminated the cable using the standard method with all the armour strands in the compression cone of the gland. The...
    • Marvo
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    • armour swa termination
    • Replies: 12
    • Forum: Electrician Talk
  5. M

    doubling cable over for termination?

    Working onsite with a few apprentices the other day and noticed that every cable they terminated into the mcb or rcbo was doubled over, so when I asked them why they were doing it there reply was college taught them to do it that way. Now I have always terminated the cable without doubling it...
    • MerlinGremlin
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    • cable doubling termination
    • Replies: 20
    • Forum: UK Electrical Forum
  6. G

    crimping and termination course

    Hello fellow forum members, I have been looking at doing a crimping and connecting course with a well known manufacturer of cable accessories and connectors which they issue a certificate for as well as a soldering course as I have been asked for IPC610 certification for a few jobs at interview...
  7. M

    CAT6 Outdoor Grade Cable Termination Issue

    Hiya All I am wiring my house using CAT 6 Ethernet cable and bought outdoor grade CAT 6 cable as some of my runs will be outdoor. The problem is that outdoor grade CAT 6 cable is not very flexible by design - due to the black external layer, the white inner sheaf and the gel filled interior. I...
  8. P

    termination of swa in trucking

    New to testing and inspecting so bare with me. Doing a EICR on an old building of ours. One supply to a sub dis board using 3core swa runs through metallic trunking, through a wall, onto tray then into the sub dis board. The supply end of the armour has been terminated with a bs951 pipe clamp...
  9. G

    MICC termination

    Hello all, I'm in the early stages of pricing up/designing a large job which involves the complete renovation and rewiring of an old church. It's a large building (will hold a few hundred people) and they are possibly looking at rewiring parts of it (mainly where there is original stonework and...
  10. driverman

    extractor fans-time lag-isolation switches

    Touched on this before, unable to find thread. Many thanks for your comments re isolation switches etc. I've now decided to go for 4 x in line extractor fans all sited in the loft. Also that the isolation switch for each fan be sited along side each fan. The isolation switches will be...
  11. Pete999

    Emergency MICC Termination

    I was thinking back to my youth, or more correctly my early days as a Sparky after completing my Apprenticeship, and having to carry out a MICC termination without the requisite MICC tooling, I had to do one end,only a small one, can't recall the exact size but it was on a lighting circuit. Any...
  12. T

    I need a compact armoured termination solution!

    Good evening Gentleman. I have had a small job in the pipeline for a while for a customer who is having stainless steel bollard lighting down either side of their drive way. Nipped up to check on the jobs progress to find the client couldn't find the correct size light fitting so he has...
    • Tidy Max
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    • armoured compact solution termination
    • Replies: 16
    • Forum: UK Electrical Forum
  13. Midwest

    Cable termination into Brick Lights

    I've picked up a job of replacing some Brick Lights, whilst doing some work at a property. The original lights seals have failed and had a very low IR reading. The lights were fed from the house via FCU and swa cable. I've disconnected both ends of the swa and have a satisfactory IR. What I'm...
  14. G

    swa termination

    Hi, im designing an installation and pricing for a large property, i plan to feed sub mains using swa. Maybe a silly question, can i gland the swa in a stud wall and bring the cores through the plaster to the consumer units? customer wants to see no cables and id much rather use swa than twin...
  15. A

    DC cable termination

    Hi all Always looking to take advice! I am running two 5 core 50mmm SWA supply cables from my inverter location within the installation site to the roof, here i will be needing to connect to each of the cores up to 11 6mm dc cables. Does anybody have any recommendations on what equipment...
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    Right or Wrong - Termination of SWA - Opinions and Suggestions please guys!!!!!

    Above is a picture of 2 16mm SWA cables terminated into a termination block. In my opinion this is the correct way to dress in the SWA and terminate it into the incoming side of the termination block, not putting it into the same termination as the outgoiong cables. Is there a reg that says you...
    • harrison2987
    • Thread
    • opinions please right suggestions swa termination wrong
    • Replies: 53
    • Forum: UK Electrical Forum
  17. C

    SWA earthing tags and termination tool

    I've been searching for a part that I used once and can't remember where it came from but I thought it was a neat little idea and could save some time if doing a lot of swa gland terminations. The part in question is a brass banjo with a flying lead soldered onto it! I want to buy a pack of 50...
  18. B

    30amp Rated termination blocks (choc blocks)

    In my own home I needed to blank a socket that was on a ring and at the consumer unit It had a 32a breaker installed. When I went to wickes, and also two electrical wholesalers they only sold 30amp electrical connectors (choc blocks) and the next rate up was 60 amp which were huge and would...
  19. S

    anyone reccomend a termination box

    Hi guys, as title really, i need to terminate 4 25mm swa's on the outside of a 5 floor building and wondered if anyone has done something similar and could you recommend a product. Looking to terminate the swa into an ip rated enclosure and then run twin tails from their straight through the...
  20. richy3333

    Termination of SWA cable

    At a house today to do a job. Had to pull the fuse and found the attached in the meter cupboard. Customer tells me there is another unit in the garage, both serve a caravan (I didn't verify this as it had nothing to do with my work). Both units have had the SWA made-off with BS951 clamps. One of...

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