Date stamped on cable

[BDG]

Is there a code referance that you cannot use a cable after a certain amount of time? Or is that a job specification item?
For instance, I have a 15KV MV cable brought to the jobsite, and the date is Sept 2008, the customer is questioning the date.
We will be doing testing on the cable before and after installation.
Any thoughts?

 

[hurk27]

Is there a code referance that you cannot use a cable after a certain amount of time? Or is that a job specification item?
For instance, I have a 15KV MV cable brought to the jobsite, and the date is Sept 2008, the customer is questioning the date.
We will be doing testing on the cable before and after installation.
Any thoughts?

I know of no such requirment in the NEC?

 

[480sparky]

If it was dated last week, would he want you to come back in three years and replace it?

 

[jumper]

If it was dated last week, would he want you to come back in three years and replace it?

 

[hurk27]

I would just tell the customer that that is the last day you can chew on the cable, after that it might have to many germs

I think most of those dates are production runs, nothing more then a way to know which batch they were made from in case defective cable shows up they know what to recall.

 

[George Stolz]

Clever inspectors also use the date to determine where you've been on a remodel.

"How did this cable dated 2011 get installed in 1978?"

 

[paul]

I think that after you do our required hi-pot, or equivalent, test, it will tell you if it's any good.

 

[K8MHZ]

Clever inspectors also use the date to determine where you've been on a remodel.

"How did this cable dated 2011 get installed in 1978?"

Bulk purchasing. EC ordered so much cable that wire company had to deplete 35 years worth of inventory to fill the order and never re-marked it.

:angel:

 

[zog]

Is there a code referance that you cannot use a cable after a certain amount of time? Or is that a job specification item?
For instance, I have a 15KV MV cable brought to the jobsite, and the date is Sept 2008, the customer is questioning the date.
We will be doing testing on the cable before and after installation.
Any thoughts?

How it was stored is the key, but you will want to be sure to do a Tan Delta and/or a Partial Discharge test before energizing it. A smple Hipot test won't tell you much about moisture absorbtion.

 

[Steviechia2]

That wasn't the manufactured date that was the expiration date!!!

 

[cowboyjwc]

That wasn't the manufactured date that was the expiration date!!!

As long as it's been refrigerated, it should still be good. Did you smell it?:roll: