Partridge conductors?

[mbeebe900]

Hi,
What does it mean when conductors are referred to as Partridge?

Thanks for you help!

 

[stevenal]

ACSR, 266.8 kcm.

 

[alehman]

See

http://appprod.mysouthwire.com/ProductCatalog/XTEInterfaceServlet?contentKey=prodcatsheet16

 

[Bung]

By convention, conductors are referred to animal, plant etc names. Animals are generally used for ACSR (eg panther is 30/7/3.00, plants for alum alloy (fir is 7/2.95) insects for all alum (mosquito is 7/2.59, same size as fir) etc. It gets messier with the different conductor materials, but you get the general idea.



Bung
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[stevenal]

Maybe it depends on where you live. My EPRI book (USA)shows place names for AAAC, plants for AAC (no fir), and birds for ACAR and ACSR. I suspect Fir, Panther and Mosquito are metric sizes not listed in my book.

 

[Bung]

that's exactly why I said it gets messier with with different materials (AAAC, AAC, ACSR /GZ, HDC, etc plus all the metric, US and imperial standards...)!

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