600 Volt Conductor Splices 2

[hbendillo]

I am designing a job on which I specify a wireway and in the wireway splices for #3/0 600 volt rated conductors. It is a renovation where I show existing panel feeds being "intercepted" and refed from a new panelboard. I got to looking for some new splicing methods and really haven't found anything that strikes me. Are splitbolts and tape or compression lugs and tape still the method of choice? I was looking for something that could be done quickly, safely and provide an inheritly qaulity job. You know, practically idiot proof. Maybe like some new lug and heat shrink type thing. Does anybody have an suggestions? This is a weatherproof wireway on an outside wall of a commercial building.

 

[waross]

Butt splices;

http://www.asklug.com/splice_nav.ht...D=5574488521&OVADGRPID=10482935909&OVNDID=ND1

or

http://search.digikey.com/scripts/DkSearch/dksus.dll?Detail&name=298-1398-ND

And
Adhesive lined heat shrink.
Go here:

http://search.digikey.com/scripts/DkSearch/dksus.dll?Detail&name=RHW-20/6-300/ADH-0-ND

and click on;
Datasheets RHW Heat-Shrink

Bill
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"Why not the best?"
Jimmy Carter

 

[rbulsara]

You know, practically idiot proof.

No. At least I haven't seen one. Idiots should be kept out of electrical work.

Rafiq Bulsara

http://www.srengineersct.com

 

[hbendillo]

Thanks for the response. I found exactly what I needed from a post on another forum. Here it is in case your interested:

http://www.polarisconnectors.com/black.html

 

[oldfieldguy]

"practically idiot proof"

No. The advances in idiots keep them just slightly ahead of any technological advances toward "idiot-proofing".

old field guy

 

[sparky970]

If it were me, I'd use butt splices and tape, but there are other ways.

 

[hbendillo]

How do you quote posts on this forum.

 

[alehman]

Click on the "Process TGML" link below the message box for a list of special instructions, including quotations.

Alan
“The engineer's first problem in any design situation is to discover what the problem really is.” Unk.

 

[waross]

There are some fairly heavy, adhesive lined shrink sleeves that I have found more durable than tape. They go well with butt splices.

Bill
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"Why not the best?"
Jimmy Carter

 

[oldfieldguy]

Bill--

Yes, but you have to remember to slide the sleeve onto the wire BEFORE you crimp the ends of the cable together. Otherwise one might be subject to much mirth form some and disappointed clucking noises from others...

old field guy

 

[hbendillo]

Click on the "Process TGML" link below the message box for a list of special instructions, including quotations.

So you have to do it manually?

 

[waross]

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Cut and paste or type here the information that you want to quote

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Bill
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"Why not the best?"
Jimmy Carter

 

[hbendillo]

Yeah I know, that is what I did. I just haven't been to a site in a while that didn't have automated quoting.

 

[busbar]

As referenced by waross, in this day and age there is no valid reason not to use hydraulic-compressed slices with heatshrink covers. Both have been around for decades with well-proven reliability.