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Found this today on the outside lamp post lights i was asked to change. This wasn't the way i was shown to terminate SWA!!!!!!!

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chrisjacob said:
Hello everyone, Well it very hard Job to work with SWA and most difficult is to terminate it. It is required that all connections must be correctly terminated using appropriate termination glands. Some proper glands are needed to terminate it. Like earth tag washer fitted between gland and glanded plates or enclosure.
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eh?....

i give up...i really do..
 
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chrisjacob said:
Hello everyone, Well it very hard Job to work with SWA and most difficult is to terminate it. It is required that all connections must be correctly terminated using appropriate termination glands. Some proper glands are needed to terminate it. Like earth tag washer fitted between gland and glanded plates or enclosure.
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a bit half way house is this...
so what if the enclosure was metal?..or would this be beyond your comprehension...
 
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Tony said:
Going back the late 60’s early 70’s there were Al tape armoured 3 & 4 core solidal cables.
They were awful to work with.

If you go back even further, steel tape armoured. They would slice your hands to ribbons.
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Can't say i've ever seen, heard or worked with AL tape single or multi core cables. I suppose there may well be AL armoured multi core cables around, but i wouldn't say that they are in common usage.

They still make steel tape and steel double tape armoured cables, and you're dead right they were and still are a real cow son to terminate. A good pair of tin snips are an absolute must have when terminating those buggers!! lol!!
 
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chrisjacob said:
Hello everyone, Well it very hard Job to work with SWA and most difficult is to terminate it. It is required that all connections must be correctly terminated using appropriate termination glands. Some proper glands are needed to terminate it. Like earth tag washer fitted between gland and glanded plates or enclosure.
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So what's so hard working with, and terminating SWA cables?

Granted if your talking about cables of 3 and 4 core 240mm and above, you may well have a point, but then it's not going to be a one man job either, to work with these sizes of cables...
 
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Ha ha sometimes it goes to show why you need to do a proper apprenticeship,

Hesse examples are dreadful however I once got a scotch cast kit without and way to bond the armouring a from an swa so my boss made me use an earth braid and 2 jubilee clips.

Just looks dreadful but I suppose no one will see it buried deep underground
 
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Engineer54 said:
Can't say i've ever seen, heard or worked with AL tape single or multi core cables. I suppose there may well be AL armoured multi core cables around, but i wouldn't say that they are in common usage.

They still make steel tape and steel double tape armoured cables, and you're dead right they were and still are a real cow son to terminate. A good pair of tin snips are an absolute must have when terminating those buggers!! lol!!
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Much of Swansea's streetlighting is wired in either two or three core aluminium conductor/ aluminium tape armouring, finished in a green sheath. How well the terminations of the armouring (used as earth) has lasted, depends on how thoroughly it was installed.
 
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VoltzElectrical said:
Red, Yellow, Blue.

Brown, Black, Grey.

Hard to see in some light, but let's face it, it's not rocket science is it.

If simple colours are confusing you, then it's back to the classroom time!
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Too old for that mate can't be arsed.............blue/black/red who cares as long as it works:)
Maybe you should read more posts on here too eh............:rofl:
 
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VoltzElectrical said:
With respect, you have hijacked this thread with a European Harmonious Bias, when it was about cable types, and termination.

Now be a good boy and go and do one.
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And with even more respect my response to the colours was VERY tongue in cheek and you bit big time...........more fool you eh:)

I started my apprenticeship in 1973............gawd almighty!
Red/Yellow/blue was the cry and black as neutral.................but you weren't to know that so apologies for my flippant remarks :)
 
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GLENNSPARK said:
well...i managed quite nicely just the other day...
when i got you going and you had a tantrum out on an open forum...lol....
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Yup. And how many members have got away with an outburst like that without a ban?? So full respect to me on that pencil dik.

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44ALLAN said:
And with even more respect my response to the colours was VERY tongue in cheek and you bit big time...........more fool you eh:)

I started my apprenticeship in 1973............gawd almighty!
Red/Yellow/blue was the cry and black as neutral.................but you weren't to know that so apologies for my flippant remarks :)
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forgiven/ forgotton. xx
 
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