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Specifications
Used for current testing on switchgear, transformers and transducers fitted with Size 0 CONNEX sockets, and for applying test leads and earthing cables through a CONNEX interface during commissioning and maintenance. Applicable at Australian distribution substations where PFISTERER CONNEX is the installed separable connector system.
The difference between a current testing connector and a test and transition connector is not obvious from a catalogue listing, and ordering the wrong one costs a day on site. Megavar’s commissioning engineers use both regularly and will confirm which your test requires, and which interface size your plant carries, before anything is dispatched.
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Megavar engineers use this unit on commissioning projects across Australia. Hire it from a team that knows it inside out.
All Megavar test equipment is maintained under a documented calibration programme. Instruments are calibrated either by external calibration laboratories or in-house against reference standards that are themselves laboratory-calibrated, with measurement traceable to Australian national measurement standards held by the National Measurement Institute. A current calibration certificate is available on request. If your project requires a specific calibration interval, test standard, or documentation for a client submission, tell us at enquiry on 1300 730 499 and we will confirm what applies before you commit.
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It gives a current injection and earthing point on switchgear, transformers and transducers fitted with Size 0 CONNEX sockets. The connector bolts into the socket and the test lead attaches to its M12 terminal stud, so primary injection, current ratio checks and earth bond measurements can be made without disturbing the permanent cable termination.
Nominal current 250 A and a maximum testing voltage of 2 kV, per PFISTERER datasheet 827 181 010. It is a current testing and earthing connector, not a high voltage test adapter.
No. Its maximum testing voltage is 2 kV. Medium voltage withstand and insulation testing on CONNEX plant needs the CONNEX test and transition connector, Size 2 or Size 3, which is rated 42 kV maximum system voltage. Megavar hires both ranges and will confirm which your test needs before dispatch.
The size is set by the CONNEX interface fitted to the plant, and by the test current. Size 0 is rated 250 A; Size 1 is rated 630 A at the same 2 kV. If the socket size is not on your drawings, send Megavar the switchgear make and model and we will confirm it.
Yes. It is rated for indoor and outdoor use across an ambient range of minus 25 to plus 50 degrees Celsius.
The PFISTERER CONNEX grounding and current testing connector, Size 0, article number 827 181 010, with its protective cap where supplied. Megavar also holds the Size 1 grounding connector and the Size 2 and Size 3 test and transition connectors, so a site with mixed CONNEX sizes can be covered in one hire.
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