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    Joining aluminium to copper

    Hello, Im new to this forum and since joining and browsing I'm impressed with the variety of knowledge. I thought I would pick your brains. I have a board change to do shortly and the original wiring is aluminium and some of the cables will need extending. So my question, what products are out...
  2. M

    Size Guide for imperial aluminium SWA

    Evening everyone. Been a long time lurker on the forums but I need some help & guidance. I am about to do some work on a large industrial premises which the client wants to re-use the existing sub mains. After many discussions about replacing them they have decided to retain them. My issue is...
  3. sam400

    Aluminium twin & earth

    Hi has any one got any info on this stuff? It's solid stranded aluminium cored PVC t & e, I've not come across it before. circuit I am working is bigger than 6mm but smaller than 10mm guess it's an imperial size. i am after a CCC for the cable if anyone has any ideas? house was built mid -50s...
  4. E

    Aluminium Cables - Copper Busbar

    Hi All... i have a little question... We have Aluminium DC cables connecting onto Copper Busbars, but we car starting to get burning/galvanic oxidation. (the Large combiners are outside in metal cabinets so easily get moisture inside) But some of it is due to the odd poor connection (lugs...
  5. VoltzElectrical

    Cable Fault

    Today's first job. Householder is building a retaining wall and we have lost supply on one of our street lighting cables. Inspector has done cut and test and got voltage to one point but lost it further on. No visible damage to exposed section of cable. My job was to cut out section of cable...
  6. W

    Conduit support in marquee

    Have a job to fit 9 fluorescent fittings in a very large marquee made up with large aluminium poles . I want to run the circuit in conduit , can anybody tell me if there is anything out there I can use to secure the conduit to the aluminium poles making up the roof of the marquee . I have found...
  7. F

    Solid Aluminium conductor twin and earth tabulated Zs values?

    Hello, Board change today (domestic), cable is aluminium twin and earth - socket ring = 4mm/1.5mm, lighting = 1mm/1mm, oven 10mm/4mm IR all good, continuity & Zs are within values set for copper equivalents. This is not tinned copper. I have managed to find out that this cable was used...
  8. kingeri

    6mm Aluminium Tails, DNO says no supply listed at the address

    Evening all. Today I was invited to look at a friend's latest project, a town center workshop-----garage. He is planning on turning it into a furniture shop. He has had a 'handyman' in doing some work for him, including electrics. Apparently there was no fusebox at all and no lighting...
  9. S

    joining aluminium to copper

    I've not had the experience but I've seen a couple of glimpses of aluminium conductors joined to copper. This was on to busbars and main mccb terminals etc. They'd used lugs I'd never seen before, they also looked to have had a compound or paste in them. Does anyone know much about this...
  10. M

    Anyone worked with AWCO cables before..

    As some know from a previous thread am working on a report for some clients.. upon trying to find manufacturers details for the cable rating, all i can see on the side of the cable is AWCO Electric cable 600/1000V BASEc. I could find nothing but someone helpful told be AWCO was a subsidiary...
  11. D

    age of aluminium cables

    Been to look at a job this morning in sunny Leeds. built 1979. Firstly no CPC to lights. When I take the cover off the db its appears to be aluminium. The cables are all stranded When was aluminium on the smaller cables used / phased out. Also did the ever do a aluminium 2 core? At 1979 I find...
  12. Dean Williams

    aluminium armoured cable

    Hi While testing an office complex i've come across a 50mm 4 core aluminium armoured cable supplying the lift motor. Its glanded with a brass gland and the aluminium armour is used as the earth. firstly, i thought you had to use aluminium glands...am i wrong? secondly, can the aluminium armour...
  13. T

    Aluminium concentric cable question

    Hi just new to this forum , I've been asked to wire a log cabin in a field and the nearest supply is at the stables 70m away , this is where the situation gets a bit tricky, the stables are fed by a aluminium concentric cable which looks like a25 mm aluminium Centre core with copper cores for...
  14. R

    Scrap 3 Phase Motors

    I have a few knackered 3 phase motors in my garage, anyone know what the going rate per kilo is for them at the scrappers?
  15. C

    stand-alone PV array aluminium frame supplier ?

    We, like many suppliers, are up against it timewise to install a field-based 16 panel pv array. The main problem is to find Uk stocks of the aluminium extrusions designed to build a panel support framework Our original German supplier needs 2 months which rules it out. Any suggestions ?
  16. ringer

    Aluminium CPC

    I recall seeing in a DB the other day a 4mm aluminium CPC with 6mm copper line conductors (singles). In the OSG section on 'Earthing conductor and main protective bonding conductor cross-sectional areas' there is a footnote to the table (p28 red OSG, p40 green OSG) saying... 'Protective...
  17. K

    "Safety- do not remove" aluminium tags

    Does anyone know where I can get the "SAFETY ELECTRICAL CONNECTION- DO NOT REMOVE" tags in aluminium? I can't use labels as there is nowhere to stick them.
  18. jon jordan

    aluminium cable swa 1 x35

    tratos electric cable 600/1000v 1 x 35AL anybody used this at some point this is the cable i had given off site whats its uses? copper armourings solid 35mm aluminium core I am just stripping it know for scrap. jon
  19. Marvo

    Aluminium SWA Cable

    We regularly install control panels and the supply is an SWA cable. We obviously install the cable and lug it onto the main breaker and neutral bar. We are building a pump control panel at the moment and are due to install next week so I went to site today for the final survey. One thing I...
  20. D

    Aluminium core A/SWA?

    Got a contract where a solid alu 4 core armoured cable (we think it's 50mm) is to be reused. As it's serving a tpn supply there is an issue as to whether the armouring can be used as a CPC,as there will be no spare cores. Now I assumed..(didnt check on site!)...that the armouring would also be...

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