Description: Single or multiple conductors, concentric round, compact round or sectoral stranded copper conductors, impregnated paper insulation, lead sheath, and low density thermoplastic jacket. Optional, non-jacketed cables. Shielding Rated Cables 10 kV and up.

Okonite Paper Insulated Lead Covered 3/C cable is recommended for use in underground ducts, direct buried, and aerially when lashed to a messenger. PILC cables are used in any circuit that requires the highest reliability, the longest uninterrupted service life, and where the greatest surge, impulse and AC dielectric strength is desired. An

Insulation: Paper insulated/Lead Alloy sheathed; Shield Layer: Copper Tape; Armoured Layer: SWA or STA; Sheath/Jacket: PVC; Temperature Range: Max 80°C, Min bending 0°C; Voltage：8.7/15KV , 26/35KV; PILC Cable Data Sheet

The Okonite Company maintains an in-stock inventory of many of the products. The Master Catalog contains 7 sections with different types of cable, ranging from Single Conductor Low Voltage Cables to Medium Voltage Cables and beyond.

In spite of all the rhetoric about “getting the lead out”, most larger North American urban centers are still maintaining some form of medium voltage underground network power distribution system using paper insulated, lead covered (PILC) cables.

Okonite Paper Insulated Lead Covered 3/C cable is recommended for use in underground ducts, direct buried, and aerially when lashed to a messenger. PILC cables are used in any circuit that requires the highest reliability, the longest uninterrupted service life, and where the greatest surge, impulse and AC di-electric strength is desired.

Where legacy cables still exist, high-quality cable accessories are needed that can joint paper cables and make transitions between the existing PILC and to new plastic or rubber-insulated cables. Our range of PILC accessories includes PILC terminations, paper lead cable joints and transition joints for jointing paper cables with XLPE cables.

Failure analysis and life expectancy of paper insulated cables and accessories is a specialty. Extensive experience in design, manufacture, testing, and application of paper insulated cables enables expert, in-plant cable inspection and in-house testing.

Most large North American urban centers still contain some form of paper insulated, lead covered (PILC) cables in their underground network power system. The introduction of these types of cables goes back to the early 1900s, making some of the first cables installed over 90 years old.

The EPA has encouraged utility companies to remove Paper-insulated lead-covered (PILC) cables from the ground as soon as possible, but this process is complicated, time consuming, and often very expensive.