Safety for Wiring Methods

By : Komarul Fausiyah

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1.Cable shall be installed in accordance with
drawings. The following segregation will be
adhered to throughout the facility:
a. Medium voltage power cabling shall not occupy
the same enclosure, conduit, duct or tray with 600
volt or less light and power conductors.
b. Conductor of 600 volt or less light and power
systems and associated 120 volt A.C. System
control cabling shall be permitted to occupy the
same enclosure, conduit, duct or tray where all co.
c. Conductors of A.C. and D.C. low voltage
instrumentation, control and communication
system shall not occupy the same enclosure,
conduit, duct or tray with conductors listed above.
For detailed description of power/instrument
cabling segregations requirements refer to
specification VES-7112, section 6.2 thru 6.7.

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2. All medium voltage power cabling within the
plan production area shall be installed
underground utilized an underground duct
bank system. For pull boxes and duct bank
construction details refer to standard
drawing STD-60-07
3. Direct buried cables shall be acceptable for
of-plot services and for non essential plant
utilities, where such are located outside the
production facility boundary. For installation
details refer to standard drawing STD-60-06.

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4. In general, 600 volt or less in-plant electrical
power and control distribution shall be installed
in overhead cable tray utilizing tray rated/
armored cables as listed in section 13.2. Cable
runs from the tray to the equipment served
shall be installed in rigid conduit or via PVC
underground duct or shall be properly supported
armored cable.
5. For above ground installations, multiples of
single conductor wire, and/or multi-conductor
cable run in rigid conduit or properly supported
armored cable shall be provide for those cases
where the cable tray system is not feasible,
area lighting and instrumentation field devices.

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6. Where metal conduit is used, all phases of
a three phase circuit and neutral wire, if
any, shall be located in the same conduit.
7. All wire and cable shall be continuous
without splices from origin to termination
as far as is practicable. Where splices are
required, they shall be made in approved
junction boxes. No splices or repaired
wires or cables will be permitted within
conduits between approved junction boxes
or pull points.

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8. No wire or cable shall be installed which has
damaged insulation or jacket.
9. All multi conductor cables shall remain
sealed until immediately prior to actual
jointing or terminating.
10.The contractor shall not pull wire or cable
through boxes or enclosures where a
change of raceway alignment or direction
occurs.
11.The contractor shall not cut strands from
conductors to fit lugs or terminals.

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The contractor shall not bend cable
to less than recommended radius. The
minimum cable radius shall not be less
than indicated in the following table:

12.

Cable Type Minimum Radius

0.6/1 KV NYA 5 times OD
0.6/1 KV NYY 5 times OD
0.6/1 KV NYFGBY 8 times OD
3.6/6 KV N2XSY
12 times OD
3.6/6 KV N2XSEBY 12 times OD
3.6/6/ KV N2XSEFGby 12 items OD

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13. The contractor shall employ temporary
guides, sheaves, pulley blocks, rollers and
other suitable hardware to protect cable
from excess tension & abrasion during
installation.

14. The contractor shall be ring out each

conductor of each feeder for phase
identification.
15. Each cable shall be tagged with the cable
numbers assigned on the drawings.

Instrument Cable
In general, armored and unarmored
thermoplastic instrument wire,
decorum (type :IEB) or equal, 1.5
mm2 twisted single or multi pair
overall shielded instrument cable,
U.L listed as 300 Volt, 90oC, power
limited tray cable, approved for class
I, Division 2 classified areas, shall be
used.

Splices, Taps and Terminations ...

1) Splices, taps and terminations on 600 volt
and above insulated conductors shall be
made using crimp type compression sleeves
and lugs where possible. The compression
fittings used shall be compatible metallurgic
ally with the conductor material, and shall be
compactable with the wire, crimping tool, and
terminal strips. Plated or bare copper body
fittings shall be used on copper conductors
only. The crimping tool recommended by the
fitting manufacturer shall be the one used.

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2) The use of bolt-on clamp type fittings is
acceptable as a second choice method of
splicing, tapping and terminating 600 volt
insulated copper conductors only, and is
not acceptable as a method of splicing,
tapping or terminating aluminum
conductors at any voltage level or copper
conductors at voltage level above 600
volts.

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3) Where field insulation is required on a 600 volt
cable connection, the connection shall be wrapped
uniformly with rubber tape to a minimum thickness
of twice the cable insulation thickness and than
covered by two layers minimum of neoprene tape
or scotch #88 or equal plastic tape applied snugly
but not stretched.
4) Scotch cast single conductor resin inline and wye
splice kits, type 82-A1 thru A3, 82-B1 and 90-B1 or
equal, shall be used for 600 volt cable connections.
Splice taps and terminations shall be made in
accordance with and instructions supplied with
joint kit materials.

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5) KV shielded cable termination and splicing

shall be made in accordance with the

drawings. In general for single conductor
cabling the following quick termination kits
shall be used:
a) Termination Kits

3M Cold Shrink Quick Term 11 Hi-K silicon

rubber termination kits 5630K series
outdoor/indoor Class 1 (For outdoor
installation s) and 5620K indoor low
contamination class 3 for switchgear
connections.

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b. Inline Splice Kits
3M Cold Shrink 5331 thru 5334 quick
splice inline splicing kits.
Termination and splicing of medium
voltage cable shall be done in accordance
with the instructions supplied by the kit
manufacturer and in the presence of the
companys representative. For termination
and splice kit drain wire grounding details
refer to standard drawing STD-60-02.

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6) 5KV multi-conductor cables shall be
terminated/spliced in accordance with issued
drawings and instruction sheets packed in the
boxes with the kits purchased for the particular
installation. The work shall be performed in the
presence of the companys representative.
7) When forming cables for termination, sharp
turns, corners and edges shall be avoided in
order to prevent damage to, or weakening of
the cable insulation.
8) For 5 kV cable, the cable shield shall be
grounded at each splice and termination points.

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