May 31, 2025  
2024-2025 Academic Catalog 
    
2024-2025 Academic Catalog
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HVPA 0130 - Underground Systems


3 Credit Hours

Working knowledge of Underground Residential Distribution (URD) with practical experience in the direct burial of primary and secondary cables; installation of 200- and 600-amp elbows, splices, lightning arrestors, and overhead terminations; installation of single-phase and three-phase padmount and transclosure transformer installations; methods of shoring and sloping trenches and excavations; troubleshooting of primary and secondary cables; and fault location. The student will also review the operation of trencher digging equipment and safe work practices and procedures, proper grounding techniques of padmount transformers and transclosures.  

Pre-requisites: HVPA 0100  ELET 0120  



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