PLS-CADD (Copper Conductor - Help Required)

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Dear Friends,

We are supplying a 400 SQ.MM Bare Copper Conductor (Hard Drawn - HDCC) for Customer Substation Application for Busbars and Jumper Connection. Any idea how to get this data? I think PLS - CADD has similar interface.

Thanks
Chris

 

[bacon4life]

Are you using copper cable under tension? If this is only for flexible jumpers, most of the parameters may not be needed.

If this is for a common cable type,

https://www.powerlinesystems.com/cables

may have the parameters. Otherwise you (or the manufacturer) can send a chunk of the cable to a testing lab.

 

[Rejeckted]

The offered 400sqmm Bare copper conductors are used for substation Busbar arrangement and equipment jumper connection. The Copper Conductor we offer is Soft.

59/2.92mm (Strand/Dia of strand)

Do I need to look into one of these right:

https://www.powerlinesystems.com/generic-nonlinear-copper

? So then 400 Sq.mm = 789.4 kcmil right?

Exact copper conductor with 59 strands is not available. I am asking for help because dont have license

Thanks
Chris

 

[jghrist]

You can get a free license for PLS-CADD Ultra-lite at

https://www.powerlinesystems.com/plscaddultralite.

This has sag-tension calcs for single spans and includes access to the conductor databases, but as you say, metric copper sizes are not in generic.

 

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I tried that, I didnt understand how exactly to open that data?