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Ten Reasons
to Specify Trench COTA Bushings

Transformer Bushings
Type COTA

Paper/Foil
Oil Condenser

The extremely high dielectric


resistance obtained with the proven
Trench paper/foil oil condenser
provides superior impulse protection
and high resistance to steep
transients. The Trench design ensures
that COTA bushings will last the life
of your power transformer.

Porcelain Cemented
to Flange
(46 kV and above)

This unique process ensures high


cantilever strength and eliminates
the possibility of oil leaks where the
porcelain meets the flange.

today, including vandalism,


earthquakes and heavy pollution. In
addition, Trench COTA bushings with
a composite insulator can weigh
nearly 50% less than other brands
of bushings, making them ideal for
mobile substations.

Resistant
4 Shatter
In-board Ends
Every Trench COTA bushing is
offered with a shatter resistant inboard end insulator. These insulators
are less susceptible to damage from
handling. They will not shatter
like porcelain preventing major
transformer repair costs. Trench inboard end insulators have 25 years
of proven field experience.

5 Embedded End Shield


(46 kV and above)

High voltage bushings require an


end shield to control the electrical
field strength at the in-board end of
the bushing. Instead of mounting
this shield externally, Trench embeds
the shield in the epoxy-resin inboard end insulator. This provides
a more uniform distribution of
the electrical forces and reduces
the required clearances. The
embedded end shield provides
greater interchangeability with other
bushings, making Trench COTA
bushings the ideal replacement
bushing.

Optional
Composite Insulator

For more than 15 years, Trench


has offered transformer bushings
with outdoor composite insulators.
Composite insulators are proven
to provide solutions to many of
the problems faced by the industry
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6 Split-Conductor
(Super Draw Lead)

Historically bushings through 69


kV only offered a draw lead rating
of 400 amps. Today, using the
Trench Split-Conductor in COTA
bushings you now have draw lead

ratings to 3,000 amps. Now almost


all medium power transformers
through 100 MVA can have all draw
lead bushings. The Split-Conductor
draw lead feature allows shorter
installation times and ensures
factory tested transformer lead
connections.

7 One-Piece Porcelain
(Glued Porcelain)

All Trench COTA bushings, through


161 kV offer, as standard, one-piece
porcelain. On request 230 kV COTA
bushings can be provided with onepiece porcelain.
For 230 kV bushings and above
multiple pieces of porcelain are used
and to ensure the best possible
joint between the porcelain pieces a
special gluing process is used. This
gluing process eliminates the use of
gaskets, which can deteriorate and
cause the bushing to fail.

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9 Multi-Contacts

As we have seen in item 6 Trench


COTA bushings provide extremely
high draw lead capabilities. This is
accomplished by eliminating the
threaded joint inside the top terminal and replacing the threads with
Multi-contacts. The multi-contacts
are made from high-grade beryllium
copper alloy, silver-plated and
installed inside the bolted top
terminal.

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1 Top terminal
2 Multi-Contact

3 Retaining pin with locking device

10 Quality

Everyone talks about quality; nearly


everyone is ISO 9001 certified
including Trench but that is not the
whole picture. Quality starts at the
beginning, it starts with the design.
When you compare a Trench COTA
bushing with other brands you will
find quality design features not offered by the others. These include
O-ring gaskets
instead of flat gaskets, compression
springs not in the bushings oil, the
interior of all castings painted, easy
to read prismatic oil level
indicators and stainless steel test tap
caps just to mention a few.
Quality is the reason Trench offers
the only standard three-year bushing
warranty in the business.
85 years in the bushing business
and still growing, Trench, the quality
choice for bushings.

4 Central tube
5 Split Conductor upper part
6 Mounting flange
7 Gasket surface flange
8 Split Conductor lower part
9 Epoxy insulator
10 End-shielding
11 Bottom terminal
Split-Conductor
COTA150... COTA900

Top terminal
Draw lead stud

Bolted Top Terminal

Multi-Contact

Unlike other bushing designs, where


the top terminal is threaded onto the
bushing the Trench COTA bushing
utilizes a top terminal that is bolted
to the head of the bushing. This feature eliminates the requirement to
check the top terminal for tightness,
increasing reliability and provides a
truly maintenance free bushing.

End of draw
lead cable

4 Fixing screws

Distance to gasket of
flange see outline drawing

Bushing head

Retaining pin with locking device

Top Terminal
COTA Draw
Lead Bushings

O-Ring gasket

Terminal ID

Trench Facilities

The Trench Group is your


partner of choice for electrical
power transmission and
distribution solutions today;
and for the development of
your new technology solutions
of tomorrow.

Trench Austria GmbH


Paschinger Strasse 49
Postfach 13
A-4060 Linz-Leonding
Austria
Phone: 43-732-6793-0
Fax: 43-732-671341

Trench Limited
Instrument Transformer Division
390 Midwest Road
Scarborough, Ontario
Canada M1P 3B5
Phone: 416-751-8570
Fax: 416-751-6952

Trench Brasil Ltda


Via Expressa de Contagem, 2685
Contagem, Minas Gerais
CEP 32370-485
Brazil
Phone: 55-31-3391-5959
Fax: 55-31-3391-1828

Trench Limited
Power Line Carrier Division
815 Middlefield Road, Unit 6A
Scarborough, Ontario
Canada M1V 2P9
Phone: 416-291-8544
Fax: 416-291-5581

Trench China
MWB (Shanghai) Co., Ltd.
No. 3658, Jiancheng Road
Minhang, Shanghai
Peoples Republic of China
200245
Phone: 86-21-54720088
Fax: 86-21-54723118

Trench France S.A.


16, Rue du Gnral Cassagnou
B.P. 70 F-68 302
St. Louis, Cedex
France
Phone: 33-3 89-70-2323
Fax: 33-3 89-67-2663

Trench High Voltage


Products Ltd., Shenyang
No. 2 Zhengliang Er. Road
Jing Shen Xi San Street
Dao Yi Economic Development Zone
Shenyang 110136 P.R. China
Phone: 86-24-89722688
Fax: 86-24-89737200
Trench Limited
Bushing Division
432 Monarch Avenue
Ajax, Ontario
Canada L1S 2G7
Phone: 905-426-2665
Fax: 905-426-2671
Trench Limited
Coil Product Division
71 Maybrook Drive
Scarborough, Ontario
Canada M1V 4B6
Phone: 416-298-8108
Fax: 416-298-2209

Trench Germany GmbH


Nrnberger Strasse 199
D-96050 Bamberg
Germany
Phone: 49-951-1803-0
Fax: 49-951-1803-224
Trench Switzerland AG
Lehenmattstrasse 353
CH-4028
Basel
Switzerland
Phone: 41-61-315-51-11
Fax: 41-61-315-59-00
Trench (UK) Limited
South Drive
Hebburn
Tyne & Wear
NE 31 1 UW
Phone: 44-191-483-4711
Fax: 44-191-430-0633

www.trenchgroup.com
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Subject to change without notice (05.2006)
Printed in Canada.

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