Question: What are TE's Mechanical Cable Lugs used for?
Answer: You can use our Mechanical Cable Lugs to connect aluminium or copper conductors to aluminium and copper bars.
Question: What are Mechanical Cable Lugs made of?
Answer: Our Mechanical Cable Lugs are made of a tin-plated aluminium alloy body and aluminium alloy shear head bolts.
Question: How do you install Mechanical Cable Lugs?
Answer: Our Mechanical Cable Lugs with shear bolt heads can be installed with a standard wrench. The shear bolt heads are pre-engineered to shear at the appropriate torque level, ensuring correct torque is applied to each bolt, thus ensuring an optimal electrical contact between the lugs and the conductor.
Question: What size of conductor do Mechanical Cable Lugs cover?
Answer: Our Mechanical Cable Lugs can be used on conductors from 10 to 1000 mm².
Question: How much voltage can Mechanical Cable Lugs handle?
Answer: The bolted fitting featured herein was developed specifically for use in high and medium voltage cable accessories up to 84 kV. They may also be used in the 1 kV range.
Question: What is the maximum current carrying capacity of the Mechanical Cable Lugs?
Answer: Our Mechanical Cable Lugs are only limited by the conductor maximum current carrying capacity.