Type W Five-Conductor Round Portable Power Cable 2kV
Applications
These cables are designed for use with mobile mining equipment such as continuous miners, drills, cutters, loading machines and AC shuttle cars. Type W cables are for applications where bare grounding conductors are not required or desired.
Standards
- ICEA S-75-381/NEMA WC 58
- ASTM B 172
- ASTM B 33
- CAN/CSA C22.2 No. 96
Construction
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Conductors | Stranded annealed tinned copper conductor. |
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Insulation | Ethylene Propylene Rubber (EPR). |
Jacket | Reinforced heavy-duty/extra-heavy-duty Chlorinated Polyethylene (CPE), black. (Cables having a nominal outside diameter of more than 2.0 inches require extra-heavy-duty jackets.) |
Options
Other jacket materials such as CSP/PCP/NBR/PVC are available upon request.
Two-layer jacket with reinforcing fibre between the two layers can be offered as an option.
Mechanical and Thermal Properties
Minimum Bending Radius | 6×OD |
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Maximum Conductor Operating Temperature | +90℃ |
Dimensions and Weight
Construction | No. of Strands | Nominal Insulation Thickness | Nominal Jacket Thickness | Nominal Overall Diameter | Nominal Weight | Ampacity | ||||
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No. of cores × AWG/kcmil | - | inch | mm | inch | mm | inch | mm | lbs/kft | kg/km | A |
5×8 | 133 | 0.06 | 1.5 | 0.140 | 3.6 | 1.07 | 27.2 | 776 | 1154 | 50 |
5×6 | 133 | 0.06 | 1.5 | 0.155 | 3.9 | 1.24 | 31.5 | 1024 | 1524 | 68 |
5×4 | 259 | 0.06 | 1.5 | 0.155 | 3.9 | 1.36 | 35.2 | 1432 | 2131 | 88 |
5×2 | 259 | 0.06 | 1.5 | 0.170 | 4.3 | 1.56 | 39.8 | 2051 | 3052 | 116 |
5×1 | 259 | 0.06 | 1.5 | 0.190 | 4.8 | 1.85 | 47.1 | 2665 | 3967 | 136 |
5×1/0 | 266 | 0.08 | 2.0 | 0.205 | 5.2 | 1.98 | 50.4 | 3406 | 5069 | 150 |
5×2/0 | 342 | 0.08 | 2.0 | 0.205 | 5.2 | 2.13 | 54.1 | 3596 | 5351 | 172 |
5×3/0 | 418 | 0.08 | 2.0 | 0.220 | 5.6 | 2.27 | 57.6 | 4728 | 7035 | 200 |
5×4/0 | 532 | 0.08 | 2.0 | 0.220 | 5.6 | 2.46 | 62.6 | 5512 | 8203 | 230 |
Ampacity-Based on a conductor temperature of 90℃ and an ambient air temperature of 40℃, per ICEA S-75-381.