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Description / Abstract:
This guide presents a method for providing fence safety
clearances for electricsupply stations. The guide applies to
electricsupply stations with voltage between phases up to and
including 765 000 V. It is recognized that this guide illustrates
only one physical situation, and the user may be confronted with
other physical parameters, in which case the intent of the guide
should be appropriately applied.
Purpose.
The purpose of this guide is to provide design guidance for the
location of fences with respect to live parts within an
electric-supply station. The intent of the fence safety clearance
is to provide a reasonable safety clearance zone so that someone
inserting an object through the electric-supply station fence
should not contact live parts or come close enough to the live
parts to violate the required live part to ground clearance and
cause a flashover to occur. The safety clearance zone is necessary
to minimize a possible hazard to anyone on the outside of an
electric-supply station fence.