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Transitioning To Heat Shrink Electrical Accessories from Conventional Insulating Practices

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Are you still using conventional practice of insulating cables and other accessories to safeguard electrical installations against environmental impacts, usage errors, and risks? If you are experiencing increasing downtime because of frequent electrical faults causing financial losses in parallel, it is time to transit from conventional insulating practices to the advanced insulation practices. Yes, I am talking about heat shrink electrical accessories available for a range of applications to insulate power cables joints, cable terminations, switchgears, busbars, overhead lines, wooden poles etc.

Transitioning To Heat Shrink Electrical Accessories Is Easy

The ease of adoption, cost-effectiveness, required skills, and feasibility are the top concerns whenever you adopt a new technology. The leading manufacturers of heat shrink power cable accessories and other application-ready heat shrink products offer an ever-expanding product-line the suit your particular insulating needs. Each category of heat shrink insulation accessories has a range of low-cost products that do not need extra funds. In long run, you get the satisfactory ROI for spending heat shrink accessories. Adoption of heat shrink technology is easy because it does not need specific training. All the products come with usual manual to guide your existing electrical technicians.

Is It Reliable To Use Heat Shrink Accessories For Electrical Insulation?

Heat shrink tubing market is growing at a CAGR of 5.7% and it is expected to reach USD 2,730.98 million by 2028. The universal use of heat shrink insulation products is in challenging locations; may it be at indoor, outdoor , underground, under water, and ducts. If remote locations, design constraints, and harsh environments are your concerns, using heat shrink insulating accessories is the best solution. Made of cross-linked polyolefin, heat shrink electrical insulation products are – chemical resistant, UV resistant, waterproof, abrasion resistant, and flame retardant. Rust protection advantage is an extra reason that favors for using heat shrink products.

Heat Shrink Insulation Accessories Vs Conventional Insulating Tape

Electrical tapes generally made of vinyl, rubber, mastic, etc. is easier to apply. Heat shrink sleeves and other accessories come in predetermined shrink ratios that assure a more precise fit even to congested areas. With adhesive-lined heat shrink tubes, you can form waterproof seals. Heat shrink tubing creates a strong protection layer against the possibilities of physical damage.

The main limitation of electrical tape is its limited durability because over the period, it loses its adhesiveness to insulate the electrical cable or other components of electrical installation. When exposed to heat, conventional insulating tape starts deteriorating and harsh environmental factors accelerate deterioration process. Electrical tapes do not perform well in applications having exposure to chemicals and abrasion.

Five Tips to Take the First Step towards Heat Shrink Technology Adoption

With increasing adoption rate of heat shrink technology for insulating electrical accessories not only in industrial installations but in products also, the top manufacturers of heat shrink tubes, cable splicing kit, heat shrink tape, heat shrink couplers, protection shrouds, cable end sealing Caps, etc. provide application-ready insulating solutions. The following five tips will help you switch to heat shrink electrical accessories from conventional insulating tape-

  • Determine the accurate size/rating of cables and other accessories
  • Decide the spots in electrical installation that you want to insulate with heat shrink accessories
  • Deal with the top manufacturers of heat shrink electrical insulation accessories
  • Explore the entire product-line in a particular segment to select the best suitable accessories
  • Go through user manual to leverage the benefits of using heat shrink technology

 

 

 

An Update About Innovative Insulating Solutions by Gala

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Adopting the best dependable insulation measures is the top concern of industrial engineers, consultants, electrical engineers, contractors, and others. The building owners also want to have robust protection against electrical faults. The search for innovative but convenient to use electrical insulation solutions never ends but as of now, Gala Thermo offers the best insulating solutions to secure your electrical installations.

About Gala Thermo

Established in the year 1979, Gala Thermo Shrink Pvt. Ltd. is a member of Gala group of companies; today, it is top performing manufacturer, supplier, and exporter of cable management products with proven specialization in manufacturing a range of Heat Shrinkable products. Research and development activities keep going on consistently to deliver 100 percent satisfaction to end users with a zero defect level. The heat shrink products quality policy is accredited ISO 9001:2015, ISO 14001: 2015 and ISO 45001: 2018.

Ever Expanding Range of Rohs Compliant Heat Shrink Insulation Products

The leading heat shrink electrical insulating products manufacturers keep expanding the range of custom-to-need innovative insulating solutions. Users get several options to address their diverse demands of insulating products by exploring categories of heat shrink tubes, moulded shapes, and power cable accessories. All the products offered by Gala are tested at its own ‘High Voltage Test Lab’ and are IP 68, IEC, ASTM, Ul224 AND MIL-SPEC, and RoHS compliant.

The more in use insulating heat shrink accessories that are drawing wide scale attention of electrical professionals are-

  • Heat Shrink Sleeve: Cable joints, cable terminations
  • Shrinkable Tubes: Low voltage tubes, red insulation tubes, thin wall tubes, non-tracking tube, etc.
  • Heat-shrink Moulded Shapes: Cable end caps, low voltage breakout, anti-tracking breakout, right angle /straight, rain sheds, etc.
  • Switchgear Insulation Products: Busbar sleeves, bus bar end caps, high voltage insulation sheets, bus bar insulating shrouds, etc.
  • Busbar Sleeve for 66 KV: Busbar sleeve up to 66 kv
  • Cable Repair Products: Wrap around sleeve, repair sleeve, etc.

What Is New That You May Not Know About Heat Shrink Cable Accessories

Heat shrinkable joints and terminations offered by Gala Thermo are available under the name of CABLINK. To find new additions to this category, explore- GXLT/GPLT- Series, GXSS – 1236 – Series, GXS/1236kv – Series, GTJ/2436 kv – Series, GPS/2436 – Series, GPS/1112 – Series, etc.

Heat shrinkable tubes also known as heat shrink sleeves are available in various categories designed to suit the particular insulation applications. To find the new additions to this category, explore the product line of thin wall tubes, medium/heavy wall tubes, red insulation tubes, non-tracking tubes, busbar tubes, stress control tubes, double layer tubes, etc.

New products are also added to heat shrink moulded shapes. To find the new additions to this category, explore the product line of cable end caps, low voltage breakout, anti-tracking breakout, semi conductive cable breakout, rain sheds, right angle boot/straight boot, anode cap, heat shrink boot, etc.

As the expansion of product line has become an organizational culture at Gala Thermo, some new products are recently added to cable repair accessories also. To find the new additions to this category, explore the product line of sleeves for cable repair and wrap around.

Now Insulcore low voltage cable breakouts, available with ‘Technical Qualification Report No.: QR 1012’ provide a strong and dependable insulating seal to the crutch of 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 7 core PVC, XLPE Rubber and PILC cables up to 3.3 KV voltage.

Endnote: Heat shrink electrical insulation accessories manufactured, supplied, and exported by Gala Thermo are made of co-extruded polyolefin with options to choose shrink ratio of 3:1 or 4:1.