On Tue, 20 Aug 2013 15:10:34 +0100, Tim Streater
wrote:

In article ,

There is no problem with being in physical contact with the sheath of 400kV
undercround cables either at AC or DC its just like large bore water pipe.
Just do it by hand rather than with a JCB.

Well quite. But is the cable metal-sheathed?

Armoured and then a non conductive sheath


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