CIRCUIT PROTECTION & SWITCHGEAR
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Ideal Industries’ Yellow 77 has the lowest co-efficient of friction of any lubricant in the Ideal Industries lube range
LUBE MATTERS Brett Smyth, General Manager of Ideal Industries EMEA, discusses the importance of selecting the correct lube for conduit installations.
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One of the trends that has been very evident in the UK market recently is an increased use of conduit in electrical installations. There has been no groundbreaking innovation in the world of conduit design or fabrication and it isn’t new to the UK electrical industry; indeed, conduit has been common in industrial settings and exterior installations since we first started to connect plugs to sockets. What’s changed is the amount of conduit used to protect cables in interior commercial and domestic properties.
ike any other sector, the electrical industry evolves to adopt new trends and working practices on a continuous basis. A wide array of factors influence those trends, including regulatory change, cultural shifts and new products coming onto the market to aid safety, speed of installation and cost reduction.
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The move towards conduit Increased use of conduit brings the UK into line with common electrical sector working practices in other countries, such as the USA, for example, where conduit is a fairly standard element of any electrical network installation. In the UK, where we benefit from some of the strictest quality and safety standards across all construction disciplines, the need for conduit has been avoided due to the straight, linear runs typical of wiring
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