What is wire and cable

The use of wires and cables is extremely extensive, which is related to the safety of lives and property of thousands of households. Fake and shoddy wires and cables may cause short circuit and electric shock at first, or fire at last. The quality and safety of products cannot be ignored. And how much do you know about wires and cables? Qingzhou cable manufacturer to learn about wire and cable knowledge.

Wires and cables are a large class of electrical products used to transmit power, transmit information and realize electromagnetic energy conversion.

• Is there any difference between wires and cables

There is no strict distinction between wires and cables. Generally, bare wires without insulation or products with insulation but simple structure, small diameter, small number of cores and low performance requirements are called wires.

Cables are generally products with thick core insulation and shielded or unshielded sheath formed by multiple insulated cores. The performance requirements of cables are more and higher. For example, although RF cables are often single, not multi-core, they have high performance requirements, which is indeed called cables.

• Structure of wires and cables

It is generally composed of the following parts: conductor, insulation, shielding, inner lining, armor, outer sheath. In addition, the cable structure includes: filling, wrapping, isolation layer, etc