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chaps,
I live in a TT area. Tonight, 4 houses over the road had no electric due to a damaged cable. 3 DNO chaps responded very quickly 2 lads up ladders either side of road and a bloke at bottom helping out. I didnt see any isolation so assume they were working live. They dropped the faulty cable, ran the new cable across and connected up and everything back on.
Sounds simple enough but I was wondeirng if any of you fella could help me learn a little?
They put some orange sleeving around 2 of the 6 cables on the pole. What was the need for this?? and what is it??
How would they have attached the new cable to the existing cable on the pole (after old was removed) they seemed to use what I can only describe as "a massive gun" is this some sort of crimping tool or something?
They didnt seem to turn anything back on, while they were still working it just came on, is there some form of local isolation point up the poles for the phases or is it just like sticking a live in and hey presto straight on?
cheers and sorry for this, just wondering
I live in a TT area. Tonight, 4 houses over the road had no electric due to a damaged cable. 3 DNO chaps responded very quickly 2 lads up ladders either side of road and a bloke at bottom helping out. I didnt see any isolation so assume they were working live. They dropped the faulty cable, ran the new cable across and connected up and everything back on.
Sounds simple enough but I was wondeirng if any of you fella could help me learn a little?
They put some orange sleeving around 2 of the 6 cables on the pole. What was the need for this?? and what is it??
How would they have attached the new cable to the existing cable on the pole (after old was removed) they seemed to use what I can only describe as "a massive gun" is this some sort of crimping tool or something?
They didnt seem to turn anything back on, while they were still working it just came on, is there some form of local isolation point up the poles for the phases or is it just like sticking a live in and hey presto straight on?
cheers and sorry for this, just wondering
