The Chardon Loadbreak Elbow is a fully shielded, submersible and insulated termination for connecting underground cable to transformers, switchgear, and other apparatus equipped with loadbreak bushings, junctions, or other loadbreak connectors. The bushing insert and loadbreak elbows are the primary components in all ANSI/IEEE loadbreak connections.
The Chardon 35kV Loadbreak Elbow meets all the requirements of IEEE Standard 386,the interface design meets interface 7B (Fig 9 in IEEE Std 386-2016), and is fully interchangeable with competitor’s products and mating products that also meet IEEE Standard 386. Chardon Loadbreak Elbows are molded using high quality peroxide –cured insulating and semi-conducting EPDM rubber. All insulating rubber is compounded in house, using Chardon developed proprietary formulations.