Has anyone worked on 26kv live electrics using polyco gloves and survived? AFAIK even a drop of sweat running down the glove would be enough to cause an arc. I wouldn't trust them myself.
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Electricians gloves type of question...
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9 years ago
I'd assume that they also have to be used in conjuction with other protection. Like an insulating mat, boots, possibly clothing as well.
After all they drop people onto live 400 kV power lines to work on 'em. Just make sure the charge and discharge process is controlled.
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I have a feeling that only survivors are likely to respond that they have.
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I know of one fire service which recently reversed their policy on use of specialised gloves for electrical incidents, now prohibited rather than mandatory.
Instead they suggest borrowing a live line operating rod from an electricity company engineer to drag victims clear, for up to 11kV lines.
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Yeeees, so one has to ask, in what scenario could this need to be done anyway? Brian
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Andy Burns scribbled...
A while back and high, wide load cut an overhead cable near me. The cut cable ended up under a parked car. The fire brigade arrived, took one look and called at the lecci board. No way were they going near it.
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9 years ago
That is indeed the policy ...
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Hey go to Turkey and the `cowboys` just slip on a pair of rubber gloves to do electrical work on 240v mains rather than turn off the mains. Scary stuff!
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9 years ago
Why the gloves?can be done without.
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They changed the 11Kv pole transformer in my garden recnetly. All done live. Gloves, shoes, tools, cherry picker all specially modified/insulated.
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That has been done in the UK for fifty years to my knowledge. Most UG cable jointing routinely done live too. Just rubber mat and overshoes.
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IMO the rubber gloves are optional when working on live 240v, if you take care.
I have worked on live 415v mains with metal tools and bare hands. I had pulled the fuses, but didn't know that there was a second path to the connector block I was working on until later. Out of habit, I was standing on a piece of switchgear matting and didn't touch anything except the part I was working on, so it was not a problem.
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A really good habit to get into ...
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That's how it should be, the fire brigade get lots of training on being safe, that's why being a fireman is much safer than being say an AA man or a motorway patrol officer, etc. It sounds more dangerous as there is a lot of fuss made if a fireman is hurt but none at all if a trawler man is killed and trawling is *far* more dangerous.
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9 years ago
I don't bother with the gloves, 240v has almost zero effect on me.