'First Degree' burns are the *least* damaging so can range from 'treat it yourself at home' to go to the hospital and they will check it out and put a dressing on (or maybe not, I don't think you put dressings on burns). So there won't be any 'flesh on the cable' if they really were just first degree burns.
First degree burns may well also be the most painful simply because you haven't (seriously) damaged the nerves and they're telling you exactly that!
+1 For a change Rumm has something he knows about.
JCB?
Exactly why I concluded this was a less developed country. Any sensible safety regime (including Britain in say 1950) would not have an arrangement where someone "held the spike".
Wales?
No; no-one in Wales would write English that badly :)
I read the OP as implying the spiking was accidental, and that the person was trying to fit the cap on the trunking containing the cable at the time.
But that just raises more questions: was he putting the trunking on with 6" nails and a sledgehammer? I'm guessing it would be hard to accidentally pierce a 300mm^2 armoured cable.
Its not that difficult to put a nail into SWA. The steel wires can move apart to allow a nail through even though they would stop a shovel. They aren't designed to stop nails or screws.
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They are designed to earth the nail so you don't get electrocuted (though you may well get crispy).
ed cable and make short circuit with ground and the technician fired his ha nd first degree and part of the cable also melted but only one core ,still the power is reached to the chiller .how can i repair the damaged cable wit h out cutting ?it there any soldering thechniqu to do it? i dont want to ch ange the cable because its going throu building aroun 150m.what it the easi est way? please advice.currentlly the machine is stopped
pleas guys am asking about solutios not just words\
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ored cable and make short circuit with ground and the technician fired his hand first degree and part of the cable also melted but only one core ,stil l the power is reached to the chiller .how can i repair the damaged cable w ith out cutting ?it there any soldering thechniqu to do it? i dont want to change the cable because its going throu building aroun 150m.what it the ea siest way? please advice.currentlly the machine is stopped
I & we told you what the options are.
The solution is to employ a competent electrician to fix it. It's the sort of job where if you have to ask how to, you're not competent to DIY it.
armored cable and make short circuit with ground and the technician fired his hand first degree and part of the cable also melted but only one core ,still the power is reached to the chiller .how can i repair the damaged cable with out cutting ?it there any soldering thechniqu to do it? i dont want to change the cable because its going throu building aroun 150m.what it the easiest way? please advice.currentlly the machine is stopped
Thing is this is a public newsgroup where people are allowed to chatter off-topic and consider the wider philosophical questions raised, or irrelevancies. It is not an advice web site funded by its Google ratings or whatever. In practice, you have been given the right answer several times.
I would add that you probably can bodge it and hide the results, especially if you can keep it dry until it rains heavily, and it probably won't burst into flames for some time, hopefully not until you have moved somewhere else. But this is not recommended.
not a practical attitude in many countries
You're saying the cable installed itself? Or - if the OP installed it because there are no qualified electricians - surely he'd know how to fix it without asking?
plonk
it brings to mind that in some countries (Switzerland IIRC for example) before they bury a corpse they hammer a spike through the heart - just to be sure.
Which brings to mind burial at sea where the last stitch of the cord (binding the sailcloth in which the corpse is wrapped) is put through the corpse's nose.
just thought I'd contribute those gems...
Robert
Ah. You a relation of Turnip? No answers to a sensible point?
Yes - get a cable jointer to fix it! You aren't competent.
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