Machine control cable

What voltage is present in the cable? Just a low voltage signal?

On Fri, 2 Mar 2007 20:33:29 -0000, "noah" mused:

Depends on what duty rating and voltage you want it for.

Hi Andrew, yes, pressing any of the buttons or turning the variable speed control on the switch relays a signal to the inverter itself which in turn controls the current & motor function of the lathe. If I recall correctly cable size was way less than 0.25sq mm & had tiny stranded cores.

Noah

On Fri, 2 Mar 2007 21:31:41 -0000, "noah" mused:

So what voltage is it then?

network cable has 8 cores and looks like phone cable. You should have no trouble sourcing offcuts if you only want a short length if you can find somewhere having some network cabling done and look in the bin/skip.

On Fri, 02 Mar 2007 21:40:19 +0000, Tom Woods mused:

That is assuming it is low voltage.

You probably want something more substantial than telephone cable, although if you just want some 8-core low voltage signal flex then computer networking patch-flex might do.

Something like 3184Y control flex would probably be suitable although TLC only have this up to 5 core.

Owain

Sorry I should have said yes, the cable carries just a low voltage signal.

Noah.

On Fri, 02 Mar 2007 21:49:34 +0000, Owain mused:

YY cable would be better, or SY if it needs to stand up to a more arduous environment.SY cable needs the proper glands for it though to do it properly.

If you're certain it is low voltage low current, burglar alarm cable would probably do as it is flex rather than the solid core of telephone cable.

So pretty much any multicore cable ought to do. Cat5 is cheap and has 8 cores.

Its called multicore cable, and if you find a DECENT cable company you can get pretty much any gauge, number of cores and overall dimension you want.

Most of it is made by BICC so a google on that might net you a distributor.

maplins sell it by the metre.