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Right chaps,

Due to a few unavoidable issues, we have lost the original thread and pics etc.

Sorry about that!!!

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Cheers!!
 
Not sure either but I'd hazard a guess at lightning protection maybe. Damn neat install though :)

Im not 100% sure myself, its the first time iv ever done it and it was landed on me friday morning, after speaking to scottish power (im not keen on installing things i dont understand), from what i can gather its to connect all metalwork and switchgear together throughout the building. Ill be doing a bit more research over the weekend so im well clued up for when we get another one.
 
It's a Scottish power secondary substation 33kV I believe but not sure as the LV install and ally tape were as far as I got before they snapped the padlock on.

Cheapskates, copper tape looks better.

I must have used miles of copper tape in both MV substations and LV switch rooms. Lovely stuff to work with.

We couldn’t use aluminium tape due to the chemicals we made, it rotted it away.
 
Our problem RoB was the product would attack aluminium. I had a switchboard lying idle for six months, when it came to connecting it the aluminium bus-bars looked like they had been shot-blasted.
The connections had to be coated with Densal antioxidant paste to protect them from attack and galvanic corrosion.

Aluminium ladders were not allowed on plant in case the product got inside the rungs and rotted them.
 
I believe that Scottish Power are now moving to aluminium for all there cabling also due to the high price of copper, was on a H.V course at there training centre a few months back and thats what the instructor was saying.
 
I believe that Scottish Power are now moving to aluminium for all there cabling also due to the high price of copper, was on a H.V course at there training centre a few months back and thats what the instructor was saying.

They’ve been using it since I were a lad.

I went to EMEB’s training collage about 30 years back. They had us jointing Al to Cu 11KV cables.
 
You’ve got you’re wires (tapes) so crossed I don’t know were to start.

Thermic welding is used for joining the earth tape or cable to an earth mat, especially if you have an Ufer earth.

Use that in an 11KV joint and you’ll be looking for the remains of the cable cores.

Forget any idea of going on a HV jointing course unless you’re company will pay. It’s very expensive and the real knock back when you look at the prices is in small type (plus material costs). £700 last time I looked for a PILC joint kit. You will do more than one joint on the course.
 
Yep, this is a standard requirement for sub-station rooms/buildings. Never, ever seen this done in aluminium though. That is possibly going to create more problems than it's initial cost reduction!!

Normally the two ends of this room loop would connect to a MET/MET earth bar, with removable links to facilitate testing. One section of the earth bar would connect all the earthing conductors, such as earth rods, Ufer earth mat, etc, and a second section would contain electrical links from cables TX, switch boards etc. The tape would be used to locally connect and equalise other metal structures or componants within the room, like the metal doors, windows (if any) ventilation louvers and other metallic plant, like AC units and/or it's ducting etc....
 

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