Cable Supplier

An Electrical Cable is two or more wires running side by side and bonded or protected, twisted or braided together to form a single assembly. In the mechanical world, the word cable means a rope or reinforced rope which is used for lifting or hauling, but in electrical engineering, cables are used only to carry electrical currents. There are exceptions however; an optical cable carries signals and images. There are various types of electrical cables, some being of a large diameter to carry huge amounts of power, while some are minute, carrying just minivolts and signals. Electrical cables can be made more flexible by stranding the wires. In this process, smaller individual wires are twisted and braided together to produce larger wires that are more flexible than solid wires of a similar size. Bunching small wires before concentric stranding adds the most flexibility. The copper wires in a cable may be bare, or plated with a layer of different metal such as tin or silver. These cables can be secured together and organised much like trunking using cable ties or cable carriers. Continuous flex or flexi cables used in moving applications within cable carriers can also be secured using strain relief devices or cable ties.