Energex settings

This article refers to the 2015 Design Manual and is not applicable to the 2025 release of the EQL manual.

Energex issued an updated Overhead Design Manual in December 2015.

An option file is available from https://polesnwires.com/downloads/energex.zip that you can load into version 7 through Options>Load. It contains settings allowing you to do the 3 tipload cases Energex now requires – EDT, SST and LST.

If you want to enter poles into the poles database pay attention to these matters:

• The
  strength ratings have already had a strength reduction factor applied
  to the ultimate strength capacity of the pole. [The factors are 0.4 for
  no wind (sustained load) and 0.72 for wind load on wood poles or 1.0 for
  concrete poles. Wind capacity is also reduced by the wind load on the
  pole, applied at half the height above ground. (Reference: section 2.3
  sheet 3, 2.12 sheet 1.)]
• When entering poles into the database
  put the no wind serviceability limit value into the Strength: No Wind
  column and Ultimate Wind strength limit into the Strength: Ultimate
  column. This is not the correct meaning of Ultimate strength capacity
  but is necessary to get a correspondence between Poles ‘n’ Wires version
  7 and Energex’s manual.
• Enter the working stress strength capacity from the old ODM into Strength: wind 1 in the database.

The Energex pole data set is available for purchase for $250 +GST.