23rd September 2015
Specialised Wiring Accessories’ new fast-action SmartFit Glands provide a revolutionary way of fixing cable glands that promises huge time savings for electricians.
Unlike traditional glands, SmartFit glands can be fitted in seconds using a simple push-and-twist action — and working solely from the outside of enclosures. No locknuts are used and there’s not even any need for the enclosure hole to be threaded.
The SmartFit Glands use an ingenious combination of locking teeth and a spring-loaded collar to make installation both faster and easier. The new glands are dust-tight and are protected against the prolonged effects of immersion (5 bar, 30 minutes), earning the SWA range the maximum IP68 rating.
A further advantage of the SWA SmartFit Cable Glands is that the narrow profile of the locking teeth means the glands take up significantly less space inside the enclosure wall than a conventional gland fitted with a locknut.
“At SWA, we are always on the lookout for innovative ways to improve established products in the marketplace,” said Colin Fletcher, SWA’s Marketing Manager. “As the UK’s leading supplier of cable glands, we naturally turned our attention to this humble metal and nylon product used every day by electricians.
“What was needed was a quick and easy new way to speed up the fiddly process of installation. We arrived at the idea of combining locking teeth locating against the inside enclosure wall with a spring-loaded gland collar acting on the outside — a solution that, like many of the best ideas, is both simple and ingenious.
“We have developed our initial range of SmartFit Glands in tough PA6 Polyamide and we are now looking at expanding the principle to all types and sizes of gland, whether brass or nylon/plastic.”
If the SmartFit glands need to be removed, this can be done using a separate tool. By pushing this cone-shaped adaptor on to the gland inside the enclosure, the locking teeth are compressed and the gland can simply be lifted out of the hole. Again, the process takes just a couple of seconds and the gland can be re-used.
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