Shrink technology

Old-shrink and heat-shrink technologies have been around for many years, but how they work is quite different and not widely understood. This article offers an overview of the shrink technologies and their advantages and disadvantages. This article also discusses the different methods of electrical stress control and how they perform relative to terminations and splices. Specific considerations for both terminations and splices are also addressed. We dis- cuss high-dielectric stress control and geometric stress control and present the advantages and disadvantages of each.