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Mining Cable

Type W Five-Conductor Portable Power Cable 2kV

 

Applications

These cables are designed for guse with mobile miningequipment such as continuous miners, drills,cutters,

loading machines and AC shuttle cars.Type W cables are for applications where bare groundingconductors 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

Type W Five-Conductor Portable Power Cable 2kV

Conductors: Stranded annealed tinned copper conductor.

Insulation:EPR.

Sheath: Reinforced, extra-heavy-duty Chlorinated Polyethylene(CPE), black. Other sheath materials can be

offered as an option.

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

Maximum Operating Temperature: +90℃

Dimensions and Weight:

Construction No. of Strands Nominal Insulation Thickness Nominal Overall Diameter Nominal Weight Ampacity
No. of cores×AWG/kcmil - inch mm inch mm lbs/kft kg/km A
5×8 133 0.06 1.5 1.07 27.2 776 1154 50
5×6 133 0.06 1.5 1.24 31.5 1024 1524 68
5×4 259 0.06 1.5 1.36 35.2 1432 2131 88
5×2 259 0.06 1.5 1.56 39.8 2051 3052 116
5×1 259 0.06 1.5 1.85 47.1 2665 3967 136
5×1/0 266 0.08 2.0 1.98 50.4 3406 5069 150
5×2/0 342 0.08 2.0 2.13 54.1 3596 5351 172
5×3/0 418 0.08 2.0 2.27 57.6 4728 7035 200
5×4/0 532 0.08 2.0 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.