Flexible Cable Website Launch - Shielded Control Cables

MERRIMACK, N.H. - April 11, 2013 - PRLog -- WesBell Electronics just launched a new website focusing on flexible cable because it’s a very popular product of ours. We’re constantly asked “Does that cable come in a more flexible version?” There is also a big difference, in construction and performance, between “flexible” and “continuously flexible” that you will understand after visiting our new website.

Flexible Portable Cord Products

WesBell distributes portable cord products because they’re much more flexible than standard electrical wire. Instead of using stiff THHN wire you can switch to welding cable, DLO cable or Type W to get a more protective and much more flexible copper cable. The strands are much smaller and the insulation is manufactured with EPDM rubber for added flexibility and performance in outdoor environmental conditions. Some have more protection and approvals than others but all portable cord cables have similar flexibility.

http://www.flexiblecable.net/

Flexible Control Cable

We buy most of our flexible data and control cables from a manufacturer called Lapp USA which you might know by Olflex® Wire. They engineer and manufacture flexible cables, continuously flexible control cables, servo cables and VFD cables that are used in large equipment, CNC machines, plant equipment and beverage manufacturing machines. They can also be used in all applications that require a very flexible cable that has a high resistance to oils, gasses and solvents. A “flexible cable” is one that can bend into place or wrap around a corner and it will be still for the life of the application.

Continuously Flexible Cables

This is the Olflex® brand 890 and 890CY series which is far superior to its already impressive 190 and 190CY series of standard flexible robotic cables. A “continuously flexible cable” is built to withstand applications that require the cable to be moving and twisting during the actual application. When the equipment is turned on and performing a function, it will force the cable to move back and forth like the ink cartridge in a typical printer. The “CY” stands for foil and braid shielding inserted over the conductors of the cable to block high amounts of EMI transmissions between each cable.

WesBell also offers flexible hook up wire and less flexible versions of electrical wire and building wire products. Wire and cable used around your home to connect power from your electrical box is supposed to be less flexible because it’s installed and forgotten about for the life of the application. A stiff wire can run through conduit easier, snake through walls easier and require fewer clamps when pinning it to the walls and ceilings of basements.