Recducing pins/lugs

[Dannyg8810]

Hair cutting the cores to remove strands also reduces the current carrying capacity of the cable so I would not worry to much about using a reducing pin as it will have less effect than cutting off one of the strands of a core.
For example jointingtech has reducing pins for 70mm² cable that have a reduced pin diameter of 8mm.
From this A=r²π = (8/2)²*3.14159 = 50.3mm²
so your CCC has perhaps changed from 232A to 184A (sp ref C multicore) for a 100A protective device, no real problem there.

The client wants these lugging so this is required even if there’s no real issue

 

[Richard Burns]

No, hair cutting the cable is the problem, the solution is to use reducing pins.
There is an issue with the hair cut, there is not an issue with the reducing pins.
It may be possible to prove the hair cut is not detrimental but it is bad practice and could have caused damage to other strands and further weaken the cable.

 

[Dannyg8810]

No, hair cutting the cable is the problem, the solution is to use reducing pins.
There is an issue with the hair cut, there is not an issue with the reducing pins.
It may be possible to prove the hair cut is not detrimental but it is bad practice and could have caused damage to other strands and further weaken the cable.

Sorry I misread what you said.

Thanks for the advise