1590mcm ACSR 'Falcon'
1590mcm ACSR 'Falcon'
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Does anyone know where I could get a stress-strain curve for 1590mcm ACSR 'Falcon' cable?
I'm trying to do a manual sag-ten calc for a short tower line and I do not have access to SAG-10 or any other program.
Thanks.
I'm trying to do a manual sag-ten calc for a short tower line and I do not have access to SAG-10 or any other program.
Thanks.






RE: 1590mcm ACSR 'Falcon'
RE: 1590mcm ACSR 'Falcon'
There are several ways to assure that ALL the wire strands are conducting:
1. What I use for building wire, both copper and aluminum, is to fan out the wire strands, clean them with #220 silicon carbide abrasive paper, goop them up with joint compound, then recompress with a hose clamp. There are some other issues such as using a round object (screwdriver shaft) to establish a bending radius and cutting off the sharp tips before cleaning. See my website http://home.earthlink.net/~mc5w about an hour after I post this. Every industrial machine that I have hooked up with aluminum has been a 100% success story as far as the aluminum wire was concerned.
You can also visit Dr. Jesse Aronstein's website http://www.inspect-ny.com . He says that a wire brush is 100% INEFFECTIVE at removing aluminum oxide.
2. You can get weld lugs that allow you to weld the cable end with a tungsten-inert-gas welder.
3. If you really want to experiment, you can electroslag weld using a flux that melts at a higher temperature than aluminum. Electroslag welding starts out as a submerged arc and when the flux pool grows enough the arc extinguishes and then you have a resistance welding method. The current melts the flux and then the flux melts and refines the metal.