Spike Test - 33kV Cable

[Alex1M6]

Sounds like the guy who played the captain in the film titanic.

[Snoep76239]

Gotta love anything involving electricity that need to be observed from a bunker....

[Snoep76239]

"verified of baNAHna strippable" LOL love the accent

[drm315]

Girl needs a sandwich!

[Spoif]

Blah blah blah... sparks start at 3:23

[madisonelectronic]

Careful preparation means lets' get the hell out of here!!!

[Gruffington31]

This has to be the most boring video on youtube! Cables fascinating............not!

[SpaceMountainLarry]

@Gruffington31 this video has 89,000 MORE views than all of your videos combined so obviously all your videos are more boring than this video

[Gruffington31]

@SpaceMountainLarry good point!! 

[SpaceMountainLarry]

@Gruffington31 my vids are pretty boring too haha =)

[Gruffington31]

@Gruffington31 this video has been up almost 3 years which is an unfair comparison.

[periesicsd]

lol, a PIG TAIL! that souds so funny...

[ApolloWasReal]

I take it that the grounded screen wire doesn't normally carry any current? I assume all loads at this voltage level would be delta (phase-phase) with no neutral connection?

[ChuffChuffWoo]

Pretty engineer! ;-)

[utubesnamepolsux]

"kiloamp". Well, *there's* a word we don't hear too much.

What is "Network Rail"?

[jjward]

@utubesnamepolsux Network Rail is the company which owns and operates most of the railway infrastructure in the United Kingdom.

[0greecemonkey0]

what the hell wheres the spiking gun!!!!? hammer and nails? hahaha dark ages ae

[Engineer9736]

@0greecemonkey0 I think using a hammer and a nail is quicker than going to find a nailgun somewhere. Plus they wanted to be sure that the nail was at the correct depth. A nailgun wouldn't even get a nail into that cable probably.

[0greecemonkey0]

@Engineer9736 i take it you have never seen a "spiking gun"? haha its nothing like a nailgun

[Nivicoman]

The correct way to blow stuff up-from the safety of an observation room.

[RODALCO2007]

Excellent footage.

I'm involved in tracing and locating cable faults in the Auckland distribution network.

Have done a few cable spikes on 11kV and 33 kV cables.

This makes you see what can happen when the cable was accidentally alive under a high fault current.

We stand well clear when triggering the spike gun, now I see why.

[psychotikpaisano]

Thats a lot of preparation just to strip and crimp the konnector!

[cejenner]

kilo amps wtf ?

[Tjita1]

That's not very much, actually. The engines of a swedish Rc-locomotive pulls a nifty 2,5 kA at maximum power. That is at 900 volts, so that makes for over 2 MW each. Although, the locomotive is rated at 3,6 MW total (four engines), so that's only temporarily during starts from standing still.

[wwwdotmsndotcom]

Not that much? That's as much as a small nuclear reactor!

You must be really hard to impress! :D

[demon6point66]

33KV times 3KA is 99MW though. And it running though much smaller conductors designed only for fault protection.. Whatever way you look at it 99 000 000 Watts is alot of power...

[demon6point66]

As in Kilo = 1000

[krassersmudda]

i can make fire with newspaper and a lighter.

thats way cheaper.

[Jet3800]

why use a lighter when you can use high voltage electricity? i have my own high voltage supply at home just for this purpose. :D

[F3nd3r2684]

6 kilo-amps aye. That's sick. I'd love to see someone touching the cable at 6 kilo-amps :D

And just like that .... poooofff ..... he's gone.

[elgavilan2000]

we regularly do 10+ kA tests at work :)

[260830107]

excuse me, did he just said 6 kilo-amps???!?!?!?!

[motoshop4]

ssssrrriinnnnk ....ups

[DJGahann]

I get aggrevated just stripping down heliax cables ;-P

[RepoMan550]

1,500 degrees celcius?! that's phenomenal.

[Elandcables]

The 33kV cable in this video is used to provide AC power between substations and local distributers. It has solid aluminium or stranded copper conductors, a semi-conducting XLPE (Cross-Linked Polyethylene) conductor screen, XLPE insulation and semi-conducting XLPE insulation screen, water blocking tape, a copper wire screen (with Copper Equalising Tape) and a graphite coated MDPE (Medium Density Polyethylene) sheath.

[manaskhatre]

@Elandcables For 33kv cable not graphite coated do we require to do sheath test after installation on site ? Please reply. thanks

[lapulapu12345]

the cable is hard to strip,because of its capacity

[bendingspring]

Network Rail is the name of the company here in england that builds and maintains the UK railway infrastructure.

[soundseeker63]

What railway runs on 33kv?

[quantumbits]

The word "rail" sometimes f refers to a buss or stable power supply source cable. I think that's wa hat he may be saying.

[laryk500]

Network Rail is a Company in England that manages the Railway system, so presumably these cables have something to do with distributing the Electricity to a Railway, although the Railway probably won't run on 33kV, but will be stepped down at a Substation beside the Railway for use.

[acronus]

It could also be a supply line that feeds the D.C transformers for the rail cars. High voltage A.C is easier to transport over long distances.

[jbhell27]

Yes you're right. Grid power is taken to switching stations (substations) then power is fed from there to the lineside substations at 33kv where it is stepped down and transformed to 750v DC for the third rail supply.Third rail requires lots of subs only a few miles apart due to the voltage drop so many miles of 33kv cable are used to supply them.

[soundseeker63]

Ah yes feeder stations. Now I see!!