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Calculate Cable Size and Voltage Drop:
Calculate Voltage Drop and Size of Electrical cable for following data.
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Electrical Details: Electrical Load of 80KW, Distance between Source and Load is 200 Meter, System Voltage 415V
Three Phase, Power Factor is 0.8,Permissible Voltage drop is 5%, Demand Factor is 1, 20,883,456 hits
Cable Laying Detail: Cable is directed buried in Ground in trench at the depth of 1 meter. Ground Temperature is
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Consumed Load in KVA =80/0.8=100KVA Distribution-Electrical Energy theft detection-
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According to above Detail correction Factors are June 2021 (2)
Ground Temperature Correction Factor (K2) =0.89
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Soil Correction Factor (K4)=1.05
Cable Depth Correction Factor (K5)=1.0 April 2021 (2)
Cable Distance correction Factor (K6)=1.0 March 2021 (2)
Total De rating Factor= k1x k2 x k3 x K4 x K5 x K6 x K7
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Total De rating Factor= 0.93
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Selection of Cable: December 2020 (1)

For selection of Proper Cable following Conditions should be satisfied November 2020 (1)
(1) Cable De rating Amp should be higher than Full Load Current of Load.
October 2020 (2)
(2) Cable Voltage Drop should be less than Defined Voltage drop.
(3) No of Run of Cable >= (Full Load current / Cable De rating Current). September 2020 (1)
(4) Cable Short Circuit Capacity should be higher than System S.C Capacity at that Point. August 2020 (2)

July 2020 (2)

Selection of Cable Case (1):
Let’s Select 3.5Core 70 Sq.mm cable for Single run. June 2020 (2)
Current Capacity of 70 Sq.mm cable is 170Amp,Resistance=0.57Ω/Km and Reactance=0.077 mho/Km May 2020 (2)
Total De rating Current of 70 Sq.mm Cable= 170×0.93 =159 Amp.
April 2020 (2)
Voltage Drop of Cable= (1.732x Current x (RcosǾ+jsinǾ) x Cable Lengthx100) / (Line Voltage x No of Runx1000)
Voltage Drop of Cable= (1.732x139x(0.57×0.8+0.077×0.6)x200x100)/(415x1x1000)=5.8% March 2020 (2)
Voltage Drop of Cable=5.8% February 2020 (2)
Here Voltage drop for 70 Sq.mm Cable (5.8%) is higher than Define Voltage drop (5%) so either select higher size
January 2020 (1)
of cable or Increase no of Cable Runs.
If we Select 2 No’s of Run than Voltage drop is 2.8% which is within limit (5%) but to use 2 no’s of Run of cable of December 2019 (1)
70 Sq.mm Cable is not economical so It is necessary to use next higher size of Cable. November 2019 (1)

Selection of Cable Case (2): October 2019 (2)

Let’s Select 3.5Core 95 Sq.mm cable for Single run, S.C Capacity =8.2KA. September 2019 (2)
Current Capacity of 95 Sq.mm cable is 200Amp,Resistance=0.41Ω/Km and Reactance=0.074 mho/Km
August 2019 (2)
Total De rating Current of 70 Sq.mm Cable= 200×0.93 =187 Amp.
July 2019 (2)
Voltage Drop of Cable= (1.732x139x(0.41×0.8+0.074×0.6)x200x100)/(415x1x1000)=2.2%
Voltage Drop of Cable=2.2% June 2019 (1)
To decide 95Sq.mm Cable, Cable selection condition should be checked.
May 2019 (2)
(1) Cable De rating Amp (187 Amp) is higher than Full Load Current of Load (139 Amp) =O.K
(2) Cable Voltage Drop (2.2%) is less than Defined Voltage drop (5%) =O.K April 2019 (3)

(3)No of Run of Cable (1) >= (139A / 187A =0.78) =O.K March 2019 (2)
(4) Cable S.C Capacity (8.2KA) is higher than System S.C Capacity at that Point (6.0KA) =O.K
February 2019 (2)
 95 Sq.mm Cable satisfied all three condition so It is advisable to use 3.5 Core 95 Sq.mm cable January 2019 (3)

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Jignesh Parmar has completed M.Tech (Power System Control), B.E(Electrical). He is member of
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Institution of Engineers (MIE) and CEng,India. Membership No:M-1473586.He has more than 16
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Maintenance-Electrical Projects (Planning-Designing-Technical Review-coordination -Execution). He is Presently May 2018 (1)
associate with one of the leading business group as a Deputy Manager at Ahmedabad,India. He has published
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numbers of Technical Articles in “Electrical Mirror”, “Electrical India”, “Lighting India”,”Smart Energy”, “Industrial
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useful Excel base Electrical Programs as per IS, NEC, IEC,IEEE codes. He is Technical Blogger and Familiar with February 2018 (2)
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It is totally illegal to Put/ Upload/Share IS standard on net. we have to purchase IS code for study.
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How did you get different K factor value? Actually, I want to know the reference of different K factor values,
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Hi Sir,
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noel kari says:

May 4, 2014 at 6:19 am

Thanks a lot sir for your efforts to put us through. But please in this calculation of: Full Load Current= (KVAx1000)
/ (1.732xVoltage). Please can you explain this (1.732) value stands for.

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M.a.Hussain says:
September 27, 2014 at 6:30 am

Hello sir,
Myself M.a.Hussain, am an electrical engineer graduate i have a doubt in selection of cable section where just
wrote current carrying capacity for the 70 sq mm cable as 170 amps without any formula or derication. i like to
know how do you calculate cable current carrying of a cable

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karthik says:
September 29, 2014 at 3:00 pm

Dear Jignesh sir,

Can you pls explain how 100 in the nominator( next to cable length) & 1000 in the denominator (next to no of runs
) arrives in the formula.
(1.732x Current x (RcosǾ+jsinǾ) x Cable Lengthx100) / (Line Voltage x No of Runx1000).

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Arunsrikanth says:
December 22, 2014 at 6:16 pm

Sir please give the correct formula how to calculate the size of the cable

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CHHABI says:
February 21, 2015 at 11:21 am

sir how can we calculate inductance of power cable?

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CHHABI says:
February 21, 2015 at 11:26 am

Sir how can we calculate reactance of cable.

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Venu says:
February 22, 2015 at 11:17 am

Sir,

I am very thankfull to you in knowing the cable size calculation from the site and i want to bring to your notice
regarding a typing mistake.
In case study to it was written as “Total De rating Current of 70 Sq.mm Cable= 200×0.93 =187 Amp”. as we are
using 95sqmm cable it should be “Total De rating current of 95 Sq.mm cable=200*0.93=187 Amp”.

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Patel Kaushal says:

May 20, 2015 at 7:54 am

Dear sir,
I want to know about how to decide or calculate Electrical equipment capacity.Please provide basic formula for
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Govardhan says:
June 20, 2015 at 4:20 am

Haw to measure 521 cable size

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August 3, 2015 at 11:06 am

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waheed ali says:

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how to measure HT and LT cable depend upon load voltage drop in HT and LT cable
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Shaikh Sohail says:

August 10, 2015 at 11:24 am

thank u sir for a great article, but it is very difficult to calculate the resistance and reactance of the cable…….sir plz
add the formulas for how to calculate the reistance and reactance of the cable

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Arpita says:
August 20, 2015 at 7:20 am

Sir, i will be very grateful if you please let me know from where do i collect this system S.C. capacity . and there is
another thing i would like to point out, this cable S.C. capacity which you have given as 8.2 KA, is this correct?

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Anil says:
November 24, 2015 at 6:32 pm

Total curent rating 500A lenght ofcable 100mtr 400v wat size of cable using

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Jacob.N says:
December 21, 2015 at 1:22 pm

sir can you explain what is 0.125m,0.25m ,0.5m in cable distance factor

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Mohamed Farook says:

January 7, 2016 at 8:53 am

Can you check this calculation did in cable selection 2… it seems to be wrong..

Voltage Drop of Cable= (1.732x139x(0.41×0.8+0.074×0.6)x200x100)/(415x1x1000)=2.2%

for me it’s coming 4.3%

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JIgnesh Prajapati says:

January 8, 2016 at 11:55 am

Dear Sir can we calculate voltage drop for Flexible wires

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Jeyetonwa Jenewari says:

January 14, 2016 at 11:32 pm

sir, your articles are superb,If i was in touch with you physically, we would have discuss more, I appreciate your
work. I will suggest why put them in hard copy people will buy them in a hurry.
please can you send me problems associated with 11kv feeder, and ways of proffering solutions. It is a project i
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suhasraj patel says:

January 28, 2016 at 5:34 am

Can you tell me which cable is use in your calculation ?? copper or aluminium ?? And how you calculate the current
capacity of those cables ?? Kindly reply me with your formula/equation of those cable’s phase and ground

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Namdev Gaikwad says:

February 29, 2016 at 5:43 pm

it’s excellent.

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Gops says:
March 16, 2016 at 6:09 am

Dear Sir, i have two Que.

1) I have 3.5 core 35sqmm Alu. armed Cable. so pls ask me what is my per phase Amp. capacity and what is total
capacity of 3.5 core 35 sq mm alu armed cable.

2) I have 63 amp 4 pole MCB so what is my per phase current capacity. and total capacity of mcb

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Bala says:
March 28, 2016 at 12:21 am

Dear, Mr.Jignesh Parmar

As mentioned, Current Capacity of 70 Sq.mm cable is 170Amp,Resistance=0.57Ω/Km and Reactance=0.077

mho/Km

how to calculate the resistance and reactance for the cable ?

if there is a chart, kindly post it…
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Dharmendra says:
April 1, 2016 at 12:36 pm

Dear sir

Please let me know about allowable voltage drop between PCC panel to MCC panel?

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bala says:
April 9, 2016 at 8:39 am

(Cable S.C Capacity (8.2KA) is higher than System S.C Capacity at that Point (6.0KA) =O.K)
My question is how to calculate Short circuit capacity at that point ? as short circuit capacity of the cable is taken
from the table

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Shabir uz aman says:

May 18, 2016 at 5:20 am

Plz Sir clear my concept about my sent issues. which are sent to your email by me

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manivannan says:
June 1, 2016 at 12:01 pm

how to cable calculate in panel

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manivannan says:
June 1, 2016 at 12:02 pm

520 kw cu cable suitability sq mm of cable

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Prabu Hindu says:

June 27, 2016 at 10:14 am

all the cable cos and sine value is same pls ans me sir,

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Rizwan says:
November 5, 2016 at 11:07 am

you are really Great Sir

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Anil says:
November 16, 2016 at 11:22 am

Dear Sir…thanQ very much for the valuable info about cable designing.Kindly let me know the correction factor for
cables to be laid inside PVC ducts embedded in concrete.
Thanks

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Kartik Parekh says:

January 5, 2017 at 7:36 am

is it correct if we derive voltage drop as V = I x Z, where Z = (sqrt(sumsq(r2,x2))?, in above calculation you have
calculated Z = R cos phi + j sin phi, i think here Z is a complex number with some angle to X axis, say Z = R*0.8 +
X*0.6, this gives me a magnitude of Z at 36 degree to X axis. please help on this issue whether which is correct
calculation of Z to arrive at actual voltage drop i.e. V = I*Z?

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Naveed says:
January 29, 2017 at 12:33 pm

My load is 4836a three phase tell me standrd size of cable for each phase length is 100feet

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Sidhartha says:
February 2, 2017 at 11:43 am

Sir ,
nice explanation.It helped me a lot.

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Prajakta says:
May 5, 2017 at 12:00 pm

Dear Jignesh Sir,

How can we select the size of flexible wire for power & lighting loads?

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Cass Hibbert says:

May 10, 2017 at 1:29 pm

Hi, I’m trying to ascertain the size of 3 core wired armoured cable I will need to keep voltage drop to a minimum
level to ensure an existing 100am 240V 18KVa supply is still maintain at that level 300m away from the supplies
supply….on-line calculators suggest I might need a 125mm/6 inch cable? Kind regards Mr Hibbert

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nidheesh says:
June 7, 2017 at 12:22 pm

Electrical Load of 2.34KW, Distance between Source and Load is 1000 Meter, System Voltage 415V Three Phase,
Power Factor is 0.8,Permissible Voltage drop is unknown, Demand Factor is 1. What would be the cable size in
laying under the soil with ambient temperature.

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Megha says:
June 23, 2017 at 5:57 am

Sir can you share the voltage drop formula for single phase? how we can derived it??

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Prasanth says:
July 16, 2017 at 7:06 pm

sir how we get reactive power value

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Prasanth says:
July 16, 2017 at 7:07 pm

sir how we get reactive power value 0.6

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MD AFSAR says:
September 7, 2017 at 11:55 am

dear sir help me to calculate Rcos#and jsin# where value of cos# is 0.8 and sin# is 0.6 but how to calculate value
of R and j

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harshil patel says:

September 22, 2017 at 8:26 pm

Sir plz send me voltage drop calculation for 180 amp. For 3.5C*120 sq.mm lt cable for 1 cable and 2 cable

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T Alagumari says:
October 31, 2017 at 2:22 pm

I want 4 core (multistrand core) copper wire pvc insulated cable which should carry 150 amps current 440v , ph

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Priyaranjan Mallick says:

March 13, 2018 at 8:19 pm

Dear Sir , Greetings on my behalf to Your good self . Would You mind to explain against “No. of Cable / Trench” for
Your Excel Programme titled “Calculate Cable Size & Voltage Drop” ?

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Avinash Nair says:

March 24, 2018 at 5:29 pm

Please upload HT cable sizing calculations?

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archana says:
April 18, 2018 at 3:27 am

i need to know cable selection on base of kw and A

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Partha says:
May 9, 2018 at 7:21 am

In case of voltage drop calculation, 139 A has been considered for calculation against 159. If I am wrong, please
correct me…

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Vairam says:
June 18, 2018 at 7:45 am

Sir let can you explain how can you tell 95sq mm cable amps 200 and resistance ,reactance, shorts circuit current
8.2ka .please tell reason behind this.

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siddharth jain says:

May 11, 2019 at 8:49 am

Hi Sir,

Your blog & respective calculations are very clear to understand. I want to know how we can do the calculation for
DC cable sizing. will it be the same procedure to calculate?

one of my senior suggested me to do only voltage drop calculation, no need to apply derating factors. If so..why
we don’t need to apply derating factors to calculate cable size for DC system? Pls suggest.

Thank You So much for all your great work.

Best Regards
Siddharth Jain

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siddharth jain says:

May 17, 2019 at 7:46 am

How to select the value of cosǾ & sinǾ in the formula.

Voltage Drop of Cable= (1.732x Current x (RcosǾ+jsinǾ) x Cable Lengthx100) / (Line Voltage x No of Runx1000)
Can anyone help me in this please?

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SKJ says:
July 14, 2019 at 4:25 am

Can u suggest what will be maximum distance length of point wiring with conduit and wiring is considered as per
code reference in commercial project?

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Partha sarathi Das says:

August 28, 2019 at 7:17 am

Thanks for sharing the most demanding calculation

Moreover, certain doubts are there which needs to be clarified for better understanding.

a. In the correction factor, K3 stands for what?

b. How to find out or know the Short Circuit capacity of cable which should be higher than the
system short circuit capacity?

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Bharath says:
September 25, 2019 at 10:27 am

Electricals

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Bharath says:
September 25, 2019 at 10:31 am

Electrical

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Washim akran says:

February 3, 2020 at 4:22 pm

Dear sir
I can’t understood how to get current capacity of cable.u take direct value of 79 and95 sq mm cable rattling in
dalution

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Shepherd, Munyaradzi MUPUNGAYI says:

February 4, 2020 at 9:22 pm
I have 60kw three phase Solar 415 volts power supply from my house and I need to put 30HP water pump on
water source which is 2500m away. Which armored cable is best to use and what is the minimum voltage drop

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syed yawar says:

April 13, 2020 at 10:40 am

Hello Jignesh

I am try to buy Voltage drop calculation please help me

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manikandan c says:
September 14, 2020 at 1:22 pm

from where u r getting this formula and can u tell the indian standard code mentioning the above formula

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parallax1957 says:
March 4, 2021 at 5:44 pm

Hello Jignesh. I have attempted to connect with you via the email in tha past. I have purchased your (39) Street
Light Pole Voltage Drop Calculation-UNLOCK (1.1.19) and advise you, that your method is not as per NEC. I am a
professional engineer in Canada (check my registration with PEO) and can help you to adapt your product to NEC
and CSA standard. Please advise.

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madan rawal says:

October 19, 2021 at 9:08 am

great compilation of technical information. Thank you

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Roshan says:
April 25, 2022 at 11:16 am

Where will we get the cable details as you mentioned here 70 mm 170 amp, resistance 0.57, reactance 0.077
95 mm 200 mm resistance 0.041, reactance 0.074
I have gone through different information available on the net it’s different so

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M.Ganabathy says:
August 25, 2022 at 5:32 pm

Dear sir, kindly i need voltage drop limit in 11KV cable. & where its mention mumbai electricity board in india.
kindly share

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 M S says:
October 17, 2022 at 12:23 pm

(4) Cable S.C Capacity (8.2KA) is higher than System S.C Capacity at that Point (6.0KA) =O.K

Sir, please guide that how did you get the Value of S C Capacity Like 8.2 KA & 6.0 KA.

Please Guide

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Kishori Thakur says:

December 6, 2022 at 9:35 am

sir please guide me, while calculate cable size from transformer to PCC panel, Which load we can take, connected
load to PCC or maximum demand of PCC panel.

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Puthiyaraj says:
January 23, 2023 at 11:45 am

We laid ac cable in ground in trench. Which one we choosing current carrying capacity of the 70 sqmm cable :
Ground – 170A, Duct – 140A

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