Southwire SAG10: Support: Documentation

Over its many years of use, the SAG10 product team at ACA Conductor amassed a broad collection of content, including extensive appendices and addendums which we have listed her for your reference. To support the users of all versions of the software, we present the data as it originally appeared on the SAG10.com site. We have not changed the Appendices nomenclature so that you will be able to easily find resources you use currently. The following exceptions apply:

All support documents related to Vibrec remain the property of ACA Solutions and can be found on their site at http://www.acasolutions.com.

• Appendices M, N, O and U are no longer relevant or available.

For Southwire SAG10 v.3.10, you will find a new version of the users manual below. Eventually, new Appendices will be generated as we further enhancement the software.

To download any PDF listed below, right click on the "File Download Link" and select "save target as" from the pop-up menu. Select a destination on your computer to download, then select "save".

USER MANUAL (Southwire version 3.10)

USER MANUAL (ACA versions 3.0 to 3.9.9)

Appendices:

B - List of Stress Strain Charts

C - Notes for Bates Spotting Program

D - Notes for Metric Users

E - Error Messages

F - Plotter Cable Information

G10 - Non-Supporting Cable Example

G11A - Determining Data on One Span-Original Design Not Known

G11B - Determining Data on One Span-Original Data Known

G12 - Offset Clipping Example

G13 - Percent RTS-HW or Horizontal & Vertical Sag Example

G1A - Stringing Sag Example

G1B - Stringing Sag Example

G2 - Separate Steel & Aluminum Example

G3 - Elevated Temperature Example

G4 - Extra Heavy Load Control Example

G5 - Common Point Example

G6 - Rime Ice Example

G7 - Metric Example

G8 - T-2 Conductor Example

G9 - Marker Ball Example

H - Stringing Sag Calculations

I - Galloping Attachment Locations

J - Inclined Span Sag Example

K - Sketch - Use of Offsets

L1 - Toye and Davison Clearances

L2 - Toye and Davison Clearances Update

M1 - SAG10 on Vista

M2 - Disable Admin Approval Mode for Vista

P - Examples for AFL - ADSS Cables

Q - Toye and Davison Galloping

R - Analysis of Galloping Field Observations

R - Rawlings Galloping

S - Update of Galloping Field Observations

T - Galloping Ellipses Plot

V - Theory of Compressive Stress in Aluminum of ACSR

W - Effects of Tangent Support Stiffness on Sags at High Temperature

X - Limitations of Ruling Span Method at High Temp

Y - Some Effects of Mill Practive on Stress Strain of ACSR

Z - ADSS Sag & Tension