Installation
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19 Before installation
19.1 Preliminary clarifications
In order to load the transport units in a suitable installation order, the responsible Siemens 
representative requires the following information from you several weeks before delivering the 
switchgear:
• Sketch of the installation room including the locations and numbers of the individual panels 
and the storage space for the accessories
• Sketch of the access route from the public road to the switchgear building and information 
concerning the condition thereof (meadows, arable soil, sand, gravel, etc.)
• Sketch of the transport route inside the switchgear building with the locations and 
dimensions of doors and other narrow points, as well as the floor number of the installation 
room
• Information about available lifting equipment, e.g., mobile crane, fork-lift truck, lifting 
truck, hydraulic jack, roller pads. If no lifting equipment is available, please notify this 
explicitly.
19.2 Installation and fixing material
Before starting to install the individual switchgear components, provide for the required 
installation and fixing material.
19.3 Working materials
Materials
• Emery paper (K 360)
• Shims 0.5...1 mm
• Guide string 
• Use only the supplied or released mounting paste. Use the mounting paste only according 
to the installation instructions.
• Cleaning agents (see page 207, "Cleaning agents and cleaning aids")
Tools
• Roller crowbars
• Reinforcing bars
• Racks (crank winch)
• Hydraulic jack (2...3 t, for vertical and horizontal stroke) 
• Torque wrench 8...20 Nm, 20...70 Nm
• Torx reversing ratchet / screwdriver T10/80, T20/100, T25/100, T30/115
• Water level
• Open spanners size 13, 16, 17, 18, 19, 24, 27, 32 , 36
• Ring spanners size 13, 16, 17, 18, 19, 22, 24, 27
• Various screwdrivers 
• Vernier caliper 
• Water pump pliers
Auxiliary means
• Vacuum pump, DN8 connection
• Portable hygrometer, DN8 connection
• Volume percentage meter, DN8 connection
• Gas leak detector
•SF
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 gas filling device, DN8 connection
• 1 set roller pads