Posted to News on 28th Jul 2009, 00:00
Power to move the Wimbledon roof
Conductix-Wampfler was pleased to be involved in the contract for the new retractable roof at Wimbledon Centre court. Conductix-Wampfler has been designing and supplying mobile electrification systems to get power and signal data onto moving machinery and equipment for many years, and has worked closely with Street Crane Express in Sheffield on a number of prestigious projects.
For Wimbledon, Conductix-Wampfler supplied the Safelec3 Unipole Conductor Bar to deliver 415V power to the motors of the retracting roof itself. There was approximately 850metres of insulated 630Amp rated bar in total. Although Conductix-Wampfler products are generally bright yellow, orange or green in colour, the Wimbledon conductors were sheathed in a grey cover specially extruded to meet a requirement from the architects that the conductors would blend into the background.
Safelec Conductor Bar was designed, developed and manufactured in the UK, from the Salford factory in the North West of England. Originating from the 1980's, it extends from 60amps up to 1000Amps and is used indoors and outdoors. Another sporting application near to Wimbledon is the Maintenance Cradle that travels over the Wembley Arch, which is also powered by Safelec.
Conductix-Wampfler also manufactures and supplies cable festoons, energy chain, cable reeling drums and rotary sliprings to get power onto all kinds of mobile machinery.
