ArcAngel is better for the job than solid-copper conductors in five distinct ways: mechanically, thermally, electrically, financially, and risk of theft.
ArcAngel was designed to replace common sizes of copper used in grounding applications with a more flexible version of traditional CCS. The resulting high-strand-count conductor sizes are named for the current they can carry, per IEEE Standard 80-2013 Table 6. For example, ArcAngel 44 can carry 44,000 Amps for 500 ms.
As added advantage of the higher strand count, ArcAngel provides greater mechanical strength. 2/0-sized ArcAngel has higher breakload than a common 4/0 copper conductor, which provides substation design engineers new options to explore in software modeling tools, like CDEGS v18, for optimizing the cost of a substation ground grid.
Copperweld Part #
Break Load Tensile
lsc
(Up to 500 ms)
Weight
Nom. Overall Diameter
lbf
ArcAngel 101
CWAA101
25,897
11,747
101
1.9051
2.835
0.941
23.88
ArcAngel 73
CWAA73
18,785
8,521
73
1.3819
2.056
0.801
20.32
ArcAngel 52
CWAA52
13,411
6,083
52
0.9866
1.468
0.677
17.27
ArcAngel 44
CWAA44
11,258
5,107
44
0.8282
1.232
0.620
15.75
ArcAngel 28
CWAA28
7,167
3,251
28
0.5241
0.7799
0.493
12.45
ArcAngel 22
CWAA22
5,851
2,654
22
0.4279
0.6368
0.445
11.43
ArcAngel 14
CWAA14
3,619
1,642
14
0.2647
0.3939
0.350
8.89
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