BS 3454:1984
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Specification for 1.9/3.3 kV, 300 A bolted flameproof cable couplers and adaptors (including 380/660 V and 640/1100 V, 300 A adaptors), primarily for use in mines
Hardcopy , PDF
15-11-1995
English
31-05-1984
Foreword
Committees responsible
Specification
1 Scope
2 Definitions
3 Design and construction
4 Dimensions
5 Cable glands and cable sealing boxes
6 Test requirements
7 Marking
Appendix
A Information to be provided with enquiry or order
Tables
1 Properties of insulating materials
2 Properties of sealing ring
3 Minimum creepage distances and clearances
4 Details of coupler glandsets
5 Bending forces
6 Test voltages
Figures
1 Contact pin
2 3.3 kV, 300 A cable coupling unit
3 Alternative front face of mouldings
4 Sealing ring
5 Straight adaptor
6 Angle adaptor
7 Branch adaptor (for gate end boxes)
8 Adaptor pin
9 Insulated end cover
10 Electrical creepage distances and clearances for
cable coupler
11 Electrical creepage distances and clearances for
adaptors to enclosures
12 Creepage distances and clearances
13 Coupler glandsets for pliable wire armoured cables
14 Coupler glandsets for single and double wire
armoured cables
Describes requirements for 300A bolted flameproof cable couplers and adaptors of semi-screened 3-phase. Provision is made for insulated end covers. The use of other forms of intermediate box, with coupling arrangements are not precluded provided that all relevant requirements are met. Covers definitions, design and construction, dimensions, cable glands and cable sealing boxes, testing requirements and marking.
| Committee |
W/-
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| DevelopmentNote |
BS DRAFT 92/76794 DC
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| DocumentType |
Standard
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| Pages |
26
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| PublisherName |
British Standards Institution
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| Status |
Superseded
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| SupersededBy |
| BS 787-4:1972 | Specification for mining type flameproof gate-end boxes Gate-end boxes for drilling machines (for use on 3-phase a.c. circuits up to 650 V) |
| BS 787-3:1971 | Specification for mining type flameproof gate-end boxes Gate-end boxes with lighting transformers |
| BS 787-2:1968 | Specification for mining type flameproof gate-end boxes Gate-end boxes with air-break circuit-breakers (for use on 3-phase a.c. circuits up to 650 volts) |
| BS 787-1:1969 | Specification for mining type flameproof gate-end boxes Gate-end boxes for direct-on-line motor starting (for use on 3-phase a.c. circuits up to 650 V) |
| BS 7383:1990 | Specification for cold-pour resin-based compound for use as a filling medium in terminating cables in enclosures for voltages not exceeding 11 kV for use in coal mines |
| BS 2782-3:Methods 320A to 320F:1976 | Methods of testing plastics. Mechanical properties Tensile strength, elongation and elastic modulus |
| BS 2782-2.240A&B(1982) : LATEST | METHODS OF TESTING PLASTICS - ELECTRICAL PROPERTIES - DETERMINATION OF LOSS TANGENT AND PERMITTIVITY AT POWER AND AUDIO FREQUENCIES |
| BS 2782-2.230A(1982) : 1982 | PHYSICAL TESTING OF RUBBER - DETERMINATION OF VOLUME RESISTIVITY |
| BS 903-C2:1982 | Physical testing of rubber Determination of volume resistivity |
| BS 903-A26:1969 | Physical testing of rubber Determination of hardness |
| BS 2782-2.220&221(1983) : LATEST | METHODS OF TESTING PLASTICS - ELECTRICAL PROPERTIES - DETERMINATION OF ELECTRICAL STRENGTH: RAPIDLY APPLIED VOLTAGE METHOD AND STEP-BY-STEP METHOD |
| BS 4683-1:1971 | Specification for electrical apparatus for explosive atmospheres Classification of maximum surface temperatures |
| BS 5126-1:1974 | Specification for mining type flameproof supply and control units for use on systems up to 1100 V 160/250 A direct-on-line motor starters (for use on three-phase a.c. circuits) |
| BS 2782-3 Method 335A:1978 | Methods of testing plastics. Mechanical properties Determination of flexural properties of rigid plastics |
| BS 5734-1:1979 | Polyester moulding compounds for electrical and other purposes Methods of test |
| BS 4683-2:1971 | Specification for electrical apparatus for explosive atmospheres The construction and testing of flameproof enclosures of electrical apparatus |
| BS 903-A16:1987 | Physical testing of rubber Determination of the effect of liquids |
| BS 2782-4.430A.D(1983) : 1983 | METHODS OF TESTING PLASTICS - CHEMICAL PROPERTIES - DETERMINATION OF WATER AND BOILING WATER ABSORPTION AT 23 DEGREES C. DETERMINATION OF WATER AND BOILING WATER WITH ALLOWANCE OF WATER-SOLUBLE MATTER |
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