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Duff Cable on sale
This is a new one on me:
http://www.basec.org.uk/news/basec-n...il.asp?news=35 It talks of T&E on sale being constructed with undersize copper, copper coated aluminium or even steel conductors. Is copper coated ali really bad news? I know all about aluminium, but CCA would seem to overcome more or less all the problems of ali. NT |
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On Sep 12, 9:46 pm, wrote:
This is a new one on me: http://www.basec.org.uk/news/basec-n...il.asp?news=35 It talks of T&E on sale being constructed with undersize copper, copper coated aluminium or even steel conductors. Is copper coated ali really bad news? I know all about aluminium, but CCA would seem to overcome more or less all the problems of ali. NT BASEC says don't buy cable that isn't marked "BASEC" and isn't tested by a third party? Any independent confirmation of their claims? Yawn. |
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wrote: This is a new one on me: http://www.basec.org.uk/news/basec-n...il.asp?news=35 It talks of T&E on sale being constructed with undersize copper, copper coated aluminium or even steel conductors. Is copper coated ali really bad news? I know all about aluminium, but CCA would seem to overcome more or less all the problems of ali. Be interesting to know where such cables are on sale - if only to avoid them. I can't see normal sources selling them. Perhaps Ebay? -- *Horn broken. - Watch for finger. Dave Plowman London SW To e-mail, change noise into sound. |
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On Sep 13, 9:39 am, Huge wrote:
On 2007-09-12, Dave Plowman (News) wrote: In article . com, wrote: This is a new one on me: http://www.basec.org.uk/news/basec-n...il.asp?news=35 It talks of T&E on sale being constructed with undersize copper, copper coated aluminium or even steel conductors. Is copper coated ali really bad news? I know all about aluminium, but CCA would seem to overcome more or less all the problems of ali. Be interesting to know where such cables are on sale - if only to avoid them. I can't see normal sources selling them. Perhaps Ebay? We recently had the 300 metres or so of overhead from the 22kV transformer to our house replaced (*). The new cable is aluminium. I was quite surprised, since I though Al wasn't used much in this sountry.... The conductors you see strung up between pylons are aluminium. It has a higher conductivity than copper for the same weight. Robert |
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Onetap wrote:
On Sep 12, 9:46 pm, wrote: This is a new one on me: http://www.basec.org.uk/news/basec-n...il.asp?news=35 It talks of T&E on sale being constructed with undersize copper, copper coated aluminium or even steel conductors. Is copper coated ali really bad news? I know all about aluminium, but CCA would seem to overcome more or less all the problems of ali. NT BASEC says don't buy cable that isn't marked "BASEC" and isn't tested by a third party? Any independent confirmation of their claims? Yawn. So I take it no-one here's ever seen such dud cable. As you say, whats new. NT |
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