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Oil Filled Cables

Oil Filled Cables

Oil Filled Cables

(OP)
Hello - I am trying to find more about the device circled in the attached photo. Especially it's technical name and the type of oil used to refill it.

RE: Oil Filled Cables

Pothead.

I'm not sure about refilling it.

RE: Oil Filled Cables

Potheads are seldom oil filled in my area (USA). There are filling compounds with varying properties, everything from petrolatum to Ozite.

RE: Oil Filled Cables

It's a cable sealing end or seal end. The oil is usually an inhibited mineral oil but exotic oils are sometimes encountered encountered.

RE: Oil Filled Cables

(OP)
Thanks everyone.

RE: Oil Filled Cables

"Pothead" is a bit informal in my experience. "Terminator" is more likely to be what you'll see in a catalog. If oil filled, be sure to test for PCB.

RE: Oil Filled Cables

My company uses "pothead" as the formal name for the above pictured device.

In denser urban environments where a similar but larger scale buried device is used as the interface between a high- or low-pressure oil-filled pipe-type cable and where the individual phases of the cable enter a tranformer station, my company uses the term "trifurcator," with single-phase potheads serving as the typical transition point between the cable and the indoor [or, where space allows, outdoor] air-insulated buswork. These potheads are sometimes compound-filled, sometimes oil-filled.

CR

"As iron sharpens iron, so one person sharpens another." [Proverbs 27:17, NIV]

RE: Oil Filled Cables

Yeah, Terminatorpipe

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