Week 3 - Cable Jointing - Halswell Junction Road, Tradefit, Timaru 33kV
Far out time's going fast on this ASL (academic study leave)! Week 3 over! This week's log: Monday: Halswell Junction Road with Jamie. 11kV XLPE-HDPE (high density polyethylene), spiked. Good 'spike'.. right through! Tuesday: Orion EAC (entry approval certificate) course in the morning at CPIT Tradefit, afternoon Ensors Road with CJ and Nick to break into a 11kV PILCA with two XLPE for a kiosk. Steve shows CPIT students the inside of a kiosk Wednesday: Timaru with John, Terry, and Mark to do 33kV 1200mm2 3x single core XLPE. Ends prepared for joining Thursday: CPIT tradefit sub terminations with Steve. Friday: Halswell Junction Road 11kV XLPE-PILCA with Steve Analysis: 33,000 volt joining in Timaru On Wednesday I travelled to Timaru to see John, Terry and Mark joining 33kV cables for Alpine Energy. Cables come in drums of (?) length, and need to be joined the length of the full (?) run to a new substation. The joinin