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3M Scotchcast Cable Joints – Selection Factors, Specification Considerations & Application Notes
Why Gamble With Your Power Supply By Installing Underspecified Cable Joints?
A Failed Cable Joint.
The purpose of any cable joint is to remove damaged sections of cable and re-instate the electrical performance of the jointed cable as closely as possible to the original manufactured condition.
The specification, selection and installation of Low Voltage Resin Cable Joints vary according to industry. So, without a universal methodology the selection factors are specific to the cable and industry.
Several key factors include : cable function, cable reliability and consequential loss due to outage or downtime.
Standard resin cable joints are often inadvertently installed forming weak links in many industrial cable networks. Most recently we “loud-halered” the catastrophic dangers of cutting the cable joint cost-corner to the offshore industry.
Read : A Shutdown Postmortem – Reducing Cable Failures Caused By Sub-Standard Cable Jointing
Selection factors which determine the correct specification of cable joint on an industry-by-industry level are reflected in the Twitter scroll below.
