Mechanical Protection for Flex cables

I had the job of wiring the lighting in prefabricated inspection pits in the fabrication workshop, these huge steel pits fully fitted out so a hole can be dug in a workshop floor then the pits dropped in and the floor made good around them. Some were sectional and when eventually assembled three buses or lorries could be over them at the same time for inspection on a production line basis in a government test centre.


I questioned the wiring specification and ATEX requirements, however was told it was what the customers had asked for. They were wired in SY cable supported on the long runs within steel tube welded to the sides of the pits, but without elbows or tube into the light fittings with the SY cable not enclosed.


After a couple of days I became very quick at making CXT glands for SY cable.


Andy B.

I had the job of wiring the lighting in prefabricated inspection pits in the fabrication workshop, these huge steel pits fully fitted out so a hole can be dug in a workshop floor then the pits dropped in and the floor made good around them. Some were sectional and when eventually assembled three buses or lorries could be over them at the same time for inspection on a production line basis in a government test centre.


I questioned the wiring specification and ATEX requirements, however was told it was what the customers had asked for. They were wired in SY cable supported on the long runs within steel tube welded to the sides of the pits, but without elbows or tube into the light fittings with the SY cable not enclosed.


After a couple of days I became very quick at making CXT glands for SY cable.


Andy B.