National foreword

This British Standard is the UK implementation of EN 50182:2001, incorporating corrigenda April 2004, June 2005 and July 2013. It supersedes BS 215‑1:1970 and BS 215‑2:1970, which are withdrawn.

NOTE Corrigendum June 2005 includes and replaces Corrigendum April 2004.

The UK participation in its preparation was entrusted to Technical Committee GEL/7, Overhead electrical conductors.

A list of organizations represented on this committee can be obtained on request to its committee manager.

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This British Standard was published under the authority of the Standards Policy and Strategy Committee on 15 August 2001.

This European Standard was approved by CENELEC on 2000-11-01. CENELEC members are bound to comply with the CEN/CENELEC Internal Regulations which stipulate the conditions for giving this European Standard the status of a national standard without any alteration.

Up-to-date lists and bibliographical references concerning such national standards may be obtained on application to the Central Secretariat or to any CENELEC member.

This European Standard exists in three official versions (English, French, German). A version in any other language made by translation under the responsibility of a CENELEC member into its own language and notified to the Central Secretariat has the same status as the official versions.

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Foreword

This European Standard was prepared by the Technical Committee CENELEC TC 7, Overhead electrical conductors.

The text of the draft was submitted to the formal vote and was approved by CENELEC as EN 50182 on 2000-11-01.

The following dates were fixed:

Annexes designated "normative" are part of the body of the standard. Annexes designated "informative" are given for information only. In this standard, annexes A, B, C and E are normative and annexes D and F are informative.

The contents of the corrigendum of April 2004 have been included in this copy.

1 Scope

This European Standard specifies the electrical and mechanical characteristics of round wire concentric lay bare overhead electrical conductors stranded in alternate directions, with or without grease as per EN 5032, made of one or a combination of any of the following:

Hard drawn Aluminium as per EN 088 designated AL1
Aluminium alloy as per EN 50183 designated AL2 to AL7
Zinc coated steel wire as per EN 5018 with grade and class designated ST1A, ST2B, ST3D, ST4A, ST5E, and ST6C.
Aluminium-clad steel wire as per EN 1232 with class designation 20SA (grades A and B), 27SA, 30SA and 40SA.

Conductors made of zinc coated steel wires only are not included.

2 Normative references

3 Definitions

4 Designation system

4.1

4.2

4.3

4.4

4.5

5 Requirements for stranded conductor

5.1 Material

5.2 Conductor sizes

5.3 Surface condition

5.4 Conductor diameter

5.5 Stranding

5.6 Joints

5.7 Conductor mass per unit length

5.8 Grease

5.9 Conductor rated tensile strength

5.10 Nominal d.c. resistance

6 Tests

6.1 Classification of tests

6.2 Sample size

6.3 Rounding rules

6.4 Properties of conductor

6.5 Properties of wires after stranding

6.6 Properties of grease

6.7 Inspection

6.8 Acceptance or rejection

7 Packaging and marking

7.1 Packaging

7.2 Marking and tare

7.3 Random lengths

7.4 Accuracy of lengths

7.5 Drum barrel dimensions

8 Information to be clarified by the purchaser and manufacturer

BS EN 50182:2001

Conductors for overhead lines. Round wire concentric lay stranded conductors

Current

Published:

31 Dec 2024