how much compression / Weight can SWA take?

LlandrilloSpark · Mar 17, 2013

Evening Fellas

I'm doing a job this week wiring up some site cabins on a dockyard, I'm running a 10mm two core SWA 50 metres, there is a 9m section which is exposed to vehicles, one of them being a truck which emptys the portaloo .im thinking if protecting the cable with some sort of protection but was wondering what type of weight it would take?, cheers

Toonlad · Mar 17, 2013

Put it inside a 21ft scaff tube then cement it to the road, it will last longer than the yard lol.

Guest55 · Mar 17, 2013

highways grade rubber channel protectors will take 40t HGV no prob ;-)
---- knows where you can get the stuff lol.

Des 56 · Mar 17, 2013

Doesn't seem to be a good idea running trucks over a wired armoured cable,the chances are the cable will flatten quite easily

Nip it through some conduit

I wonder what the score was in the rugby yesterday lol

LlandrilloSpark · Mar 17, 2013

TLC do channel but 10mm SWA won't fit in it.....'kin useless

Des 56 · Mar 17, 2013

Your in a dockyard so getting some angle iron to cover it should be no problem

I wonder what the score was in the rugby yesterday lol

Guest55 · Mar 17, 2013

or take the cable up and over the traffic ;-)

Marvo · Mar 17, 2013

We use class 50mm class 10 HDPE irrigation pipe as ducting buried at 500mm or deeper. It's very inexpensive and easily obtainable, also resilient even to trucks if it isn't buried too shallow. It comes as a roll and is easy to install.

LlandrilloSpark · Mar 17, 2013

Can't take it over as the high tanker, I've been told this!

Guest55 · Mar 17, 2013

looks like youre digging a 9mtr trench then

LlandrilloSpark · Mar 17, 2013

No chance!!, 25mm steel conduit maybe !

Guest55 · Mar 17, 2013

how longs it gotta last for ?

Marvo · Mar 17, 2013

LlandrilloSpark said:
No chance!!, 25mm steel conduit maybe !

Are you being serious? You're running it on the surface?

I'll give it 24 hrs before darkness and cold tea descends on the site cabins.

LlandrilloSpark · Mar 17, 2013

Hard to explain the job area!,the only vehicle that will go near it is the truck , every two weeks, whole job being decommissioned in 9 months, I might just get the proper protectors and try and adapt them some how , that said I can't seethe conductors being damaged when protected by armour and steel conduit

Toonlad · Mar 17, 2013

He is in a Dock yard, they have scaffold coming out there ears,it will take the weight of a tracked mobile crane; Doing doghnuts on it. well not exactly Ken Block driving.