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10 Ten Reasons
to Specify Trench COTA Bushings
 Transformer Bushings
Type COTA

1 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.
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.
4 Shatter Resistant
In-board Ends
Every Trench COTA bushing is
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)

2 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.
offered with a shatter resistant in-
board end insulator. These insulators
are less susceptible to damage from
handling. They will not shatter
like porcelain preventing major
transformer repair costs. Trench in-
board end insulators have 25 years
of proven field experience.
All Trench COTA bushings, through
161 kV offer, as standard, one-piece
porcelain. On request 230 kV COTA
bushings can be provided with one-
piece porcelain.
For 230 kV bushings and above
multiple pieces of porcelain are used
and to ensure the best possible

5 Embedded End Shield

(46 kV and above)
joint between the porcelain pieces a
special gluing process is used. This
gluing process eliminates the use of
High voltage bushings require an gaskets, which can deteriorate and
end shield to control the electrical cause the bushing to fail.
field strength at the in-board end of
the bushing. Instead of mounting
this shield externally, Trench embeds
the shield in the epoxy-resin in-
board 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.

3 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
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

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9 Multi-Contacts 10 Quality
6 As we have seen in item 6 Trench Everyone talks about quality; nearly
COTA bushings provide extremely everyone is ISO 9001 certified
7
high draw lead capabilities. This is including Trench but that is not the
accomplished by eliminating the whole picture. Quality starts at the
8 threaded joint inside the top termi- beginning, it starts with the design.
nal and replacing the threads with When you compare a Trench COTA
Multi-contacts. The multi-contacts bushing with other brands you will
9 are made from high-grade beryllium find quality design features not of-
10 copper alloy, silver-plated and fered by the others. These include
installed inside the bolted top O-ring gaskets
terminal. instead of flat gaskets, compression
11 springs not in the bushings oil, the
interior of all castings painted, easy
to read prismatic oil level
1 Top terminal
indicators and stainless steel test tap
2 Multi-Contact caps just to mention a few.
3 Retaining pin with locking device
Quality is the reason Trench offers
4 Central tube
the only standard three-year bushing
5 Split Conductor upper part warranty in the business.
6 Mounting flange 85 years in the bushing business
and still growing, Trench, the quality
7 Gasket surface flange
choice for bushings.
8 Split Conductor lower part
9 Epoxy insulator
10 End-shielding
11 Bottom terminal

Split-Conductor
COTA150... COTA900
Top terminal
Draw lead stud

8 Bolted Top Terminal

Multi-Contact
Retaining pin with locking device
4 Fixing screws
Unlike other bushing designs, where
End of draw
lead cable

the top terminal is threaded onto the

bushing the Trench COTA bushing O-Ring gasket
utilizes a top terminal that is bolted
Distance to gasket of
flange see outline drawing

Bushing head
to the head of the bushing. This fea-
ture eliminates the requirement to
check the top terminal for tightness, Terminal ID
increasing reliability and provides a
truly maintenance free bushing. Top Terminal
COTA Draw
Lead Bushings

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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.
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Trench Austria GmbH
Paschinger Strasse 49
Postfach 13
A-4060 Linz-Leonding
Austria
Phone: 43-732-6793-0
Fax: 43-732-671341
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Via Expressa de Contagem, 2685
Contagem, Minas Gerais
CEP 32370-485
Brazil
Phone: 55-31-3391-5959
Fax: 55-31-3391-1828
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
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Products Ltd., Shenyang
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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
www.trenchgroup.com
E 322.61
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Printed in Canada.
Trench Limited
Instrument Transformer Division
390 Midwest Road
Scarborough, Ontario
Canada M1P 3B5
Phone: 416-751-8570
Fax: 416-751-6952
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 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 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