Blackburn PKL66-12 PKL66-1 WITH 12 LEAD

The PKL66-12 is a compression sleeve with a pre-attached copper pigtail lead, used as a wire or cable compression reducer. You crimp the aluminum sleeve onto the larger cable, and the tinplated copper pigtail becomes the smaller conductor you carry on to the next termination. It is sold each.

It carries a 35 kV voltage rating, so it is a medium voltage device suited to MV cable terminations and splices up to that class. It ships bare: insulation material is none, so the insulating and jacketing over the connection is on you, using whatever tape, tubing, or splice kit your MV system calls for.

Uninsulated. The insulation material is listed as none, which means the sleeve and pigtail arrive bare metal and the splice has to be rebuilt with your own tape or heat shrink to the 35 kV class it is rated for. Budget the splice kit into the job.

The barrel is aluminum and the pigtail is tinplated copper, and that tinplating is what lets the copper tail sit against aluminum hardware without a bare bimetallic joint. Sizing is the limit rather than the metal: the sleeve is 3-1/2 inches long and the tail is 23/64 inch, so match the barrel to your cable's compression range and use the die the tooling calls for.

Compression only. It is crimped with a compression tool and the correct die, not bolted or set-screwed, so plan on having the hydraulic or battery crimper on the truck before you open the manhole.

Two conductors: the cable going into the aluminum barrel and the pre-attached copper pigtail coming out. One unit makes one reducing connection, and it is sold each, so order one per splice you are making.

Order it as Blackburn PKL66-12, described as the PKL66-1 with a 12 inch lead. Country of origin is Mexico, and the selling unit is each, which is what distributors usually need on the PO line.