Multiconductor Cables
Multiconductor cable may be cabled, parallel extruded or bonded. Often, a jacket or a sheath will protect multiconductor cable. Multiconductor cables and multiconductor cords can also be used to carry other types of media, including optical fibers.
Multiconductor cable may be made flexible by various means of stranding, usually twisting or braiding. The smaller the individual wires that are used to make up the multiconductor cable, the more flexibility attained. Bunching small wires before concentric stranding adds the most flexibility. Additionally, a thin coat of tin on the individual wires that make up a multiconductor cable provides lubrication for the longest life cycle. The use of high strength alloys during the stranding process gives the muticonductor cables greater flex life than multiconductor cables made with soft copper conductors .
Types of multiconductor cable:
- Coaxial cables
- Miniature cables
- Ultra-Flexible cables
- Extended Flexlife cables
- Vented cables
- Low-noise cables
- Power and Flexible Interconnect cables
- High Temperature cables
- Bonded cables
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Learn more about how New England Wire Technologies can help you specify the right multiconductor cables to meet your requirements. Call our technical sales staff at 603-838-6624 or email sales@newenglandwire.com. In addition, you may click here to utilize or custom cable design form.
The specialized world of multiconductor cable offers an engineer or end user many choices and New England Wire’s catalog is a great starting point for detailing our capabilities. In our catalog, the key components for proper multiconductor power cable assembly can be chosen by a project engineer and then adapted to specific needs through a subsequent in-depth conversation with New England Wire’s technical sales staff. Multiconductor cable products listed in our catalog typically revolve around flexible power items kept in stock that are based on current market needs. This flexible stocking program, coupled with New England Wire’s rapid prototyping ability and our integrated in-house ability to draw, strand, twist and jacket our own wire, gives us the ability to design and manufacture multiconductor power cable for any practical application and bring it to market quicker than our competitors.
Custom multiconductor cable products are designed and manufactured to suit specific applications and needs and, by their very nature, are an integral part of a system and its performance. Custom multiconductor cables can be designed and specified, thus complimenting the overall system they’re integrated into both aesthetically and functionally.
Custom cables give a designer choice as to construction materials, such as insulation, shield material and jacketing material, that best suit an application. Also, the conductor count, size and stranding can be detailed in custom multiconductor cable, as well as defining various functions such as electrical parameters and tolerances, signal, shielded sub-assemblies, coax, optical fiber, and breather tubes.
Custom multiconductor cable applications can help build brand identity of the end product through color matching, custom cable legends, and the overall feel and texture of the cable. In applications where manufacturing processes and material sources are important, such as in medical applications, custom multiconductor cable offers a high level of control.
Due to the nature of custom-produced multiconductor cable products, short runs of custom wire and cable may require large blocks of engineering, setup and machine time, and therefore may place practical limits to minimum run quantities. For example, in coiled multiconductor cord applications, due to the complexity and loss of the manufacturing process, 1000 feet of cable may have to be manufactured to result in 10 feet of application-ready custom cable. Also, since custom multiconductor cable is made to order, lead times may be an issue due to engineering time and accessibility to required materials that are not readily available due to current market needs.
New England Wire Technologies’ multiconductor cables are used in diverse applications in commercial and industrial use. Among our constantly expanding list of multiconductor cable types are:
Conductors as small as 42 AWG are integrated to create high performance miniature cables for ultrasound probes and other applications requiring minimum overall diameter.
The combination of finely stranded conductors—some less than the thickness of a human hair—and thin-wall extrusions allows the production of multiconductor cables with extreme flexibility. Used extensively in the assembly of medical electronics for applications such as patient monitoring and electro-surgical devices, ultraflexible cables are ideally suited where the unrestricted motion of an instrument is vital. Ultraflexible multiconductor cables of up to one inch in diameter can also be manufactured for use for power distribution requirements.
Multiconductor cable products with superior flexlife characteristics are the result of high strength alloys, in both stranded and tinsel conductor configurations, combined with abrasion resistant plastic insulations.. Extended flexlife cables are typically specified for applications where high reliability in repeated motion operations is required. Robotics and reusable medical probe devices are two such applications.
Cables with multiple insulated conductors plus one or more vent tubes can be produced to meet specialty requirements. Vent tubes can be utilized to pass liquids, gases or other cable components such as fiber optic filaments. Typical applications for vented cables include pressure transducers and microsurgical instruments.
Multiconductor cable constructions that help reduce or eliminate internal noise generation can be manufactured to exacting specifications for assembly in a wide range of applications including EEG, EKG, pacemaker and oximetry equipment.
Insulations such as FEP, PFA, ETFE and silicone rubber offer high temperature protection up to 250°C. Applications include integration into electrosurgical products which must undergo repeated autoclaving, and missile guidance systems which are subjected to extreme temperature and mechanical stresses.
PVC-insulated single and multiconductor cables can be bonded together to create extraflexible ribbon cables. A wide range of woven configurations is possible by integrating a variety of conductor materials and insulation plastics.
New England Wire Technologies Corporation maintains complete in-house control of the entire manufacturing process from the raw materials stage through specialty finishing.
Among our in-house production capabilities are:
- Wire drawing and plating
- Conductor stranding, twisting and cabling
- Braiding and spiral shielding
- Metalized tape wrapping
- Polyester, PTFE, Kapton, Nomex and paper tape wrapping
- Textile Braiding
- Conductor and jacket extruding
- Cable coiling
- Custom color matching
- Close compound supplier relationships
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Learn more about how New England Wire Technologies can help you specify the right multiconductor cables to your specific requirements. Call our technical sales staff at 603-838-6624 or email sales@newenglandwire.com. In addition, you may click here to utilize or custom cable design form.
New England Wire Technologies offers our customers comprehensive service, backed by the most knowledgeable engineers and craftsmen of custom cables in the industry. Services include:
New England Wire Technologies welcomes all opportunities to assist in the design, development, testing and manufacture of multiconductor cable and specialty wire products. If your requirements include materials that are not listed in our catalog or on our website, please contact us to review your specific needs.
New England Wire Technologies maintains a wide range of color pigments for numerous extruded insulations to create custom colors for your unique applications.
Our on-site testing facilities can test multiconductor cables according to standard, mil-spec or other custom testing specifications.
New England Wire uses an array of conductor materials in the manufacturing of multiconductor cables, including:
- Various high-strength alloys
- Bare Copper
- Gold, Silver, Nickel, or Tin-plated Copper
- Stainless Steel
- Tinsel Wire
Extruded insulations include:
- FEP
- Nylon
- Silicone Rubber
- PFA
- Polyester
- PVC
- Polyethylene
- ETFE
- Polypropylene
- TPE
- Polyurethane
For certain applications, New England Wire will accept your material for specialized projects. Contact us to discuss your application. When ordering multiconductor cables and multi conductor Teflon wire, you will need to know:
- Number of conductors
- Gage size
- Stranding
- Insulation requirements
- Application requirements
- Temperature requirements
- Shielding requirements
- Jacket requirements
New England Wire Technologies can help you face the many challenges in the race to get to market first, including answering complex technical questions involving global competition, growing cost constraints, and the demand for quality product. Quite simply, drawing on the creativity of our engineers and the expertise of our manufacturing people, we design and deliver highly customized wire and cable products other companies simply can’t match. In some cases we’re not simply the best choice, but the only choice!
Learn more about how New England Wire Technologies can help you specify the right multiconductor cable for your application. Call our technical sales staff at 603-838-6624 or email sales@newenglandwire.com. In addition, you may click here to utilize or custom cable design form. |
