Aluminium/Copper Split Con

The Centre Conductor is a single Aluminium 5.6 mm in diameter, with Red insulation giving an overall diameter of 7.6 mm. Equals 25 mm2.


There are 7 Black covered cores of 1.7 mm diameter Copper, with an overall diameter of 2.23 mm, Equals 16 mm2.


There are 4 (NOT 5 as I posted previously) bare Copper cores each 2.25 diameter. Equals 16 mm2.

Good, that does sound like "ordinary" Al/Cu spit con to me - so that data sheet (above) should be applicable.

  - Andy.

Well spotted Mike!

Never had to do any bailing at sea. One of the perks when I was a Radio Officer, was being in the location where I would be one of the last to get their feet wet...

That changed once I became a Technical Officer. Remember one afternoon walking down a side passage way on a container-ship - outboard of the holds beneath the main deck and found that a fire main joint had failed and was trying to fill the passageway with seawater.  Rather amusingly, the port and starboard side passage ways were connected with a passageway running across the ship. For reasons known only to the ship builder, they had quite correctly fitted a water-tight door - the sort with four dogs around the edge to clamp the door into the frame that was set in the bulkhead. But had then gone and spoilt the water-tight integrity by cutting triangular sections out of the bulkhead, which sort of negated the purpose of a water-tight door....

Clive

"But had then gone and spoilt the water-tight integrity by cutting triangular sections out of the bulkhead, which sort of negated the purpose of a water-tight door.... "


I bet it was bugging you as to the reason. It`s bugging me and I`m not much of a seafairer - Isle of Man on Ben Machree type . It sure would be interesting to know the reasons

Reminds me of going round a ship for an inspection during construction of the cable transits through watertight and/or fire division bulkheads. There was one where everyone checked the cable transit was properly filled in to make it watertight/firetight but I pointed out it wasn't much use as next to it there was a large pipe going through the bulkhead that had a f***** ¹ big hole cut in the bulkhead to let it pass through. The reality is some people know what they are doing, others just do what makes it easiest for them.


¹ For sensitive folks, the word is of course "fairly"

Alasdair Anderson:

¹ For sensitive folks, the word is of course "fairly"

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