Power & High Voltage — Elastimold® Underground Cable Accessories
600-Amp Elbow Connectors 600 Series Deadbreak Components 600 Series deadbreak elbows, straight receptacles, junctions, vault stretchers and accessories are used to connect equipment and cable on primary feeder and network circuits. Designs accommodate large conductors and feature bolted connections and deadfront modular construction for maximum reliability, performance and versatility. De-energized connectors can be quickly and easily connected and disconnected using standard hand tools and equipment in accordance with accepted operating practices. Optional accessories allow visible external separation, bypass, isolation, dead-ending, grounding and testing as well as adding taps, surge arresters and circuit protection. Hotstick-operable and separable joint systems are shown on pages 16–19 and 20–21. Spiking Aid-T When spiking a medium voltage cable near a stacked T-Body cable joint, the Elastimold® Spiking-T is a specially designed product to reduce outage time and cost. Medium voltage cable is spiked as a means to assure the circuit is de-energized where there is no sectionalizing device, direct testing means or provision for grounding. One leg of stacked T-Body cable joint is spiked/cut with a grounded guillotine type cable cutter, near the T-Body intersection. Once spiked and proved de-energized, the cable is re-prepped and a Spiking-T with a lug extender is assembled and reconnected to the stack. If this stack ever needs to be spiked again, the Spiking-T provides a convenient place to spike, no additional cable prep required, just replace the Spiking-T and the lug extender, reduced outage, reduced cost. GAD When your available fault currents exceed 10kA in your underground systems, the Elastimold® GAD may be your answer. The Elastimold® GAD is rated 25kA and installs in the rear interface of a 600 Series elbow connector (T-Body). The GAD is normally covered and insulated with an insulating cap that contains capacitive test and a hot stick operating band. Once the circuit is opened at a disconnecting device, the test point cap is removed with a hot-stick, and then using an appropriate capacitive test point meter the test point is checked for voltage. Then the insulting cap is removed with a hot stick and a high voltage meter is used to confirm the de-energized state before a ground cable is connected. No need to remove basic insulating plug, no need to install temporary grounding adapters, the Elastimold® GAD is there when you need it. Also available in a Ball GAD version.
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