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NOVEMBER 1997 ANDERSON•CHANCE•FARGO•HIPOTRONICS•KERITE•OHIO BRASS
♦ WEDGE D EADEND ♦
HOW TO CUT
Fargo has the answer
DEADEND COSTS
H
ere's a way to cut your deadend costs with
our alternative to bolted deadend clamps.
Fargo GDW wedge-type deadends are used
for terminating overhead conductors. The
spring-loaded jaws of these clamps firmly grasp conduc-
tors from #4AWG through 556.5 kcmil and 795 kcmil.
Even though initial costs are higher than traditional
bolted deadends, the savings are quickly obtained
through the speed and ease of installation
New Fargo Deadend Catalog of the Fargo clamps.
Section 3 recently revised.
Contains complete ordering In 1995 a major utility did a study of
information. Fax 573-682-8714 the wedge-type deadend compared to
for your copy.
bolted deadends. The utility calculated
savings at $36,626 using the Fargo
wedge-type units (see next page).
The secret is that the Fargo wedge-type
clamp has no bolts to contend with. The
installer simply locks the jaws of the deadend
open, inserts the conductor between the jaws
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Table I
Cost Analysis
Bolted Deadend Clamp analysis
based on bolted deadend usage in 1995
and then taps the back of the jaws to 336.4 $ 6.98 20 min. $19.00 $25.98
lock the conductor in place. No ACSR
hassle. Quick. Secure. In a few 350 AL $ 6.98 20 min. $19.00 $25.98 2570 $ 66,768.60
seconds the installation is complete.
There's no struggle with bolts and 500 AL $ 6.98 20 min. $19.00 $25.98
gloves.
556.5 $13.97 20 min. $19.00 $32.97 660 $ 21,760.20
During installation, the jaws lock in ACSR
the open position. Once contact
between clamp and conductor is 795 AL $13.97 20 min. $19.00 $32.97 48 $ 1,582.56
realized, the applied spring tension
Total Cost Per Year — $226,353.03
holds the conductor securely.
Tightening errors are eliminated. The * A composite labor rate of $57.00 was used for the analysis.
automatic clamping creates a perma- ** The installation time associated with No. 2 ACSR and 3/0 ACSR is slightly less
nent installation. The wedge action because these two clamps do not have to be taken apart to insert the conductor.
develops the full tension of the
conductor. The quality of the installa-
tion is not dependent on the installer. Table II
Cost Analysis
There's no feeding of conductor Fargo Deadend Clamp analysis
through the deadend. The side based on usage of bolted deadend in 1995
opening of the Fargo deadend allows
for speed and convenience. Installers Total Cost Estimated Estimated
find the wedge deadend particularly Conductor Unit *Installation Installation Per Yearly Yearly
easy because the deadend faces the Size Cost Time Cost Deadend Usage Cost
installer. There's no need for clumsy
No. 2 & $12.00 3 min. $2.85 $14.85 7265 $107,885.25
or special tools. No special skills.
3/0 ACSR
Adjustability is easy. ■
336.4
ACSR
Application Table 350 A
Fargo $22.00 3 min. $2.85 $24.85 3230 $ 80,265.50
Conductor Size Catalog No. 500 A
For additional information, contact your Hubbell representative or fax (573) 682-8714.
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♦ HOT L INE T OOLS ♦
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♦ TRANSMISSION C ONSTRUCTION AND M AINTENANCE ♦
HIGH VOLTAGE . . .
Y
ou know us as Anderson, Chance, Fargo and Ohio lists to assure that your line is
Brass. Trusted names united together as Hubbell built for ease of maintenance
Power Systems. We bring our combined 350+ years by hot line tools.
of EHV construction and maintenance expertise
With our Ohio Brass
together to offer a package that combines power-installed
Protecta*Lite surge arresters
anchors, foundations, insulators, live-line tools, conductor
and polymer insulators
dampers, tower hardware and fittings in a cost-saving approach
factored into your construc-
that can come only from a global supplier with a broad product
tion, you’ll have unequalled lightning protection and dependable
offering.
insulator performance delivered as a proven system.
By relying on Hubbell, there’s no going from company to
Our Anderson and Fargo conductor hardware product lines are
company trying to coordinate products from different manufac-
broad and varied. From vibration dampers to splices, connectors
turers. We do that for you. You save time and money. It all comes
and fittings, including OPGW hardware, we will meet your
together in a coordinated manner from a single source.
requirements.
We’ll help with your engineering by using our years of experience.
We’ll review with you how products you may not have consid-
We can help you configure your construction to be maintenance
ered before can work with others to cut costs and provide more
friendly. We’ll work with you to develop Chance hot line tool
dependable service. But, just as importantly, we’ll work with you
to ensure you keep saving far into the future thanks to the initial
construction and maintenance planning we’ll do together.
It’s truly a systems approach to EHV construction, maintenance
and protection. A proven way to save using the Hubbell Power
Systems product and experience package.
The Ohio Brass Protecta*Lite™ system combines the world’s
foremost lightning arrester with the world’s leading polymer
insulator to eliminate lightning-related breaker operations.
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Many companies supply products. A leader brings
expertise to help you pick the right product for your
application.
Assistance
On the ground, we’ll bring the resources of our computerized
geotechnical soil data bank to match anchors and foundations to
specific soil classifications. Chance engineers can analyze your soil
data and load requirements. Utilizing our computer facilities and
proprietary software, we’ll review with you the anchors and
foundations that will work best on your project. And, on guyed
towers we’ll combine the anchors and deadends into a coordinated
system specifically engineered to your requirements.
At the tower top, we’ll factor Ohio Brass insulators and arresters
into your construction to provide unequalled lightning protection.
It will be a proven system based on years of field experience. Since
1976, more miles of line have been installed with Hubbell
polymer insulators for transmission and distribution than any
other manufacturer of polymer insulators. When you bring our
insulators and arresters together, you’ll obtain low watts loss and
consistent lightning protection.
Fargo’s use of Tecnosoft™ vibration analysis software provides a
comprehensive approach to aeolian vibration assessment and
suppression. This modeling system simulates aeolian vibration
characteristics for any transmission line - existing or proposed.
With the use of Tecnosoft, increased conductor and static wire
line tensions may be utilized. That translates directly into lower
construction costs by permitting longer spans or lower tower
heights.
Our Anderson engineering design specialists will work with your
engineers to help you plan and design your hardware assemblies to
obtain maximum savings and performance. Bringing the Anderson
and Chance team together with your engineers early in the
planning will help you configure your tower hardware and
structure design to make hot line tool maintenance a part of the
design.
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We’ll help you cut ordering
and delivery costs.
For more information, contact your Hubbell representative or fax (573) 682-8714.
visit
http://www.hubbellpowersystems.com
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♦ POLYMER I NSULATORS ♦
INSULATORS THAT
DON’T GO TO PIECES
I t was a typical day on the
outskirts of Tucson, Arizona.
Scenic, quiet. The hot sun beat
down on a lonely stretch of desert
road. Suddenly, shots rang out in the
afternoon sky, followed closely by the
child rode his bike into it and was
killed.”
The co-op offered rewards of up to
$10,000 for information leading to the
arrest and conviction of the vandals, and
hired uniformed officers to patrol the
sound of shattering glass. area. But to this day, the vandals have
But no one came stumbling out of a not been found.
saloon like in the old westerns. There Vandalism of insulators and other line
was no gunfight. What happened was equipment is a problem for utilities
someone vandalized an insulator throughout the nation, especially
belonging to Tucson-based Trico Electric electric co-ops, whose lines reach far out
Cooperative. In residences and work- into remote areas where no one is likely
places in the area, appliances cut off, to hear or see a crackpot trying to prove
came on again, and cut off again, and he’s a crack-shot.
clocks and VCRs started blinking 12:00
Criminal justice notwithstanding, one
12:00 12:00 … Finally, the substation
thing co-ops can do is replace their
tripped out, and thousands of consum-
ceramic insulators with polymer ones. A
Polymer insulators
ers lost power.
polymer insulator may not be com- discourage cracks
Trico Electric linemen quickly found pletely bullet-proof—it may end up
and replaced the vandalized insulator, looking like a piece of Swiss cheese—
and power was restored. They returned
and crackpots,
but it won’t shatter. That alone takes the
to headquarters with a milk carton full fun out of shooting one, and vandals among other things
of lead bullets they picked up at the likely will stop short of doing any real
scene. damage.
In this case, the situation was resolved “Any time we do work in a known Veri*Lite™ on most of its 69-kV
before anything worse happened. But vandal-prone area, we put up polymer transmission lines. Veri*Lite polymer
Kevin Ritter, operations manager, has insulators,” says Ritter. “If we get repeat suspension insulators, made by Ohio
dealt with vandalism before, and knows problems we go through that whole line Brass of Wadsworth, Ohio, are one-
firsthand that it doesn’t always go that section and change the insulators out on tenth the weight of their porcelain
way. a maintenance program. The line that predecessors. “We don’t use glass bells
“In 1981 we had an area north of was hit today is a three-mile run anymore,” says Ritter. “Polymer
Tucson that was constantly being between two subdivisions. We will insulators are not only lighter weight,
vandalized,” he recalls. “One time, when probably do the whole line, or at least but are easier to handle, store and carry,
they shot the insulators, lines were left the middle mile.” and they don’t break in the truck.”
hanging four feet off the ground, and a Trico Electric uses a brand called A hairline crack in a porcelain insulator
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is hard to see, but can cause big problems. In a slight mist or fog, it
can cause an outage. “We have had that type of problem insulator,
and searched for months before finding them,” says Ritter.
The co-op has not had any problems with its polymer suspension
insulators. But distribution-class polymer insulators are another
matter. “Some of the first ones we used literally melted,” says
Ritter. “When we found them in the field, the skirts were hanging
below the rod, melted away. We’ve changed them all out.”
Another brand the co-op tried caused consumers’ lights to blink.
“Last year we hired a contractor to test our transformers for PCB,”
explains Ritter. “He reported tracking on the poles with these
insulators. We took some down and there was no physical damage,
but the pole looked like a spider web with black track marks all
over it.”
Trico Electric sent those insulators back to the manufacturer and to
EPRI for testing. The test results showed that it didn’t take much
moisture to make the leakage current go way up. When the faulty
insulators were changed out, the blinking light complaints virtually Salt Fog Test Chamber at the Ohio Brass Power Lab.
stopped.
Polymer insulators first hit the market about 20 years ago. Since
then, manufacturers and utility engineers have learned a lot about
what materials and transmission applications work. Polymer Dissimilar polymer materials can be combined to
insulators first hit the market about 20 years ago. Since then, produce an alloy with special properties. A silicone
manufacturers and utility engineers have learned a lot about what EPDM alloy for instance is highly resistant to industrial
materials and transmission applications work. Ohio Brass engineer- pollution and ocean salt.
ing is located near Akron, Ohio, known as the polymer capital of
Cape Hatteras Electric Co-op in Buxton, N.C., had
the world. Ohio Brass Engineering personnel collaborate with the
probably the worst salt contamination problem on the
Applied Research Department at the University of Akron on
east coast. That, along with overloading from massive
testing of polymer materials.
summer crowds, caused frequent outages on the 34.5 kV
line the co-op had serving the island. To solve the
problem, its G&T, North Carolina EMC in Raleigh,
replaced that line with a 115-kV line using polymer
insulators.
Some co-ops have found that polymer insulators do well
in high winds. They provide a sort of spring action that
allows poles to bend instead of break, and dampens the
galloping of lines. “Hurricane Bertha came close to Cape
Hatteras,” says Bob Beadle, project engineer for North
Carolina EMC. “The co-op had remarkably few prob-
lems with it.” He adds that Carteret-Craven Electric Co-
op, to the south of Cape Hatteras, has reported similar
favorable experience with polymer insulators.
“We hope these polymer insulators will last at least 20
years,” he says. “Manufacturers have made great im-
provements in the product in the last five years, so we’ll
see.” ■
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♦ POSTER & C ALENDAR ♦
T
he new Hubbell Power Systems 17 x 24-inch
poster salutes those who keep the power on.
Order today because the quantity is limited.
Posters are suitable for framing. ■
Fax 573-682-8714 with your request. Poster and calendar are shipped together.
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♦ ELECTRONIC
ELECTRONIC COMMERCE AT
SMART Hubbell Connection
The SMART Hubbell Connection is an online interactive system that gives our customers
and distributors direct, immediate access to information at various Hubbell Power System
Saves Time
divisions in a user-friendly, Windows-based environment. Moreover, other Hubbell
businesses are also available. One can access the SMART Hubbell Connection on a
mainframe, a personal computer, or manufacturers service platform via the
CompuServe™ network. The Hubbell Connection provides immediate data on stock
availability, current pricing, purchase order status, quotation status and direct order entry.
Therefore, with each order, the closest shipping point is automatically determined in
order to guarantee quick turnarounds; status reports are updated throughout the shipping
cycle; and on-screen help is available to assist in maneuvering through the system.
E-mail is also available through the SMART Hubbell Connection. Our customers have
access to their counterparts at all participating Hubbell divisions, fostering communica-
tion and facilitating access to Hubbell personnel.
NEW! Customers can now access the SMART Hubbell Connection through the Internet.
Simply connect to the Hubbell Web Page on the Internet at http://www.hubbell.com and
use the Internet as your access medium instead of direct dial. This new extension to
Hubbell’s existing menu of electronic commerce choices will encompass the same benefits
and features as the Connection while adding the ease and graphical interface of the World
Wide Web. The goal of this latest innovation is to provide a secure mechanism for
electronic commerce in a user-friendly environment.
Electronic Data Interchange (SMART EDI)
SMART EDI allows the exchange of information by computers via a value-added network
(VAN). Transactions are transmitted via standard ANSI X12 communications from a
central computer to an electronic mailbox, from which Hubbell picks up the transactions
and processes them. This system has already been proven to:
• minimize shipping errors
• improve order efficiency
• cut lead times in half
• improve operations
• assist in managing inventory levels
• reduce overhead costs
Already noted benefits of EDI order entry include efficiency, reduced errors and increased
profits by eliminating manual order handling and extraneous printing and faxing.
Personal Computer (PC) EDI
Created with the same efficiency benefits as EDI, this program is ideal for distributors
using a personal computer (PC) that don’t have EDI available on their legacy central
computer. Hubbell’s SMART PC EDI includes integration with more than 35 manufac-
turers and operates at a fraction of the cost with minimal technical requirements and ease-
of-operation.
SMART PC EDI also can be used by individuals using an independent PC or working as
part of a LAN. In this case, the program is simply tied into the mainframe system as an
application.
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C C OMMERCE ♦
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♦ AUTOMATIC S PLICES ♦
FULL-TENSION
AUTOMATIC SPLICES
F
argo Automatics have been proven in the laboratory
and in more than 100,000,000 installations around
the world for more than 50 years.
The wedging action of the tapered shell converts the
tension of the conductor directly into a clamping force on
the jaws that embed into the conductor and penetrate any
residual oxide build up. The splice mass dissipates heat. The
jaws transfer current to the high-conductivity shell. Conduc-
tor is held to its full strength. Conductance is equal to or
greater than that of the conductor. The locking action of the
jaws maintain electrical contact under changing tensions.
Use to connect copper, aluminum, aluminum alloy and
ACSR conductors. Each automatic splice will develop the
full strength of the conductors. Electrical performance is
superior.
No special tools are required for installation. Installs easily by
hand or hot line tool. Installation is simple and safe. ■
New Fargo Splice Catalog Section 2 just updated
with all the information you need about Fargo
splices. Fax 573-682-8714.
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AUTOMATIC SPLICE INSTALLATION IS EASY
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♦ TRADE S HOW ♦
ESMO-98
ORLANDO, FL
April 26 - 30, 1998
Florida Power Corp. (FPC) is the host utility for ESMO ‘98.
POWER
SYSTEMS
visit http://www.hubbellpowersystems.com
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