Question from a non-electrician, so excuse my ignorance. The main fuse holder in my house has just been updated to a new one, owing to my existing one being about fifty years old. How is this done with the incoming cable still live?
Live cable jointing must count as a proper brown trousers job I know I wouldn't fancy trying it.anyhow would you believe I've never actually seen it done in real life on an underground cable I've seen OH line crews do it once however I recently saw a video on YT put up by someone who calls himself residual current jointing a cable in a trench I must say it looks so much more difficult than I imagined those cables seem difficult to move and work on what I will say is that at least now pouring hot solder over a joint then filling it with hot pitch are now seemingly things of the past the cable in the video was a customer side cable but looked like the size DNOs use. If you want to see videos from I guess the 1930s there's a few on chicken pate news also YT
Live cable jointing must count as a proper brown trousers job I know I wouldn't fancy trying it.anyhow would you believe I've never actually seen it done in real life on an underground cable I've seen OH line crews do it once however I recently saw a video on YT put up by someone who calls himself residual current jointing a cable in a trench I must say it looks so much more difficult than I imagined those cables seem difficult to move and work on what I will say is that at least now pouring hot solder over a joint then filling it with hot pitch are now seemingly things of the past the cable in the video was a customer side cable but looked like the size DNOs use. If you want to see videos from I guess the 1930s there's a few on chicken pate news also YT
