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Wire Wisdom - FAQs regarding Electrical and Electronic Wire & Cable

Wire Wisdoms are concise documents providing answers to some of the most frequently asked technical questions by Anixter's wire and cable customers. Topics include ampacity, cables for use with variable speed drives, conduit fill, global cable standards, voltage drop, paralleling of power cables and cable markings. For more information about Wire Wisdom or our wire and cable offering, please contact your local Anixter representative at 1.800.ANIXTER.

5kV Nonshielded S-4 06/06 (102KB PDF)
Armor Amour 4/96 (31KB PDF)
Building Wire Types - Thermoplastic Insulation 3/01 (35KB PDF)
Building Wire Types - Thermoset Insulation 10/01 (33KB PDF)
Cable Armor: Aluminum vs. Steel 1/95 (25KB PDF)
Certification Documents 2/07 (44KB PDF)
China "RoHS" 2/07 (44KB PDF)
Color Sequences for Control Cables 7/95 (34KB PDF)
Conductor Coatings 9/99 (28KB PDF)
Conductor Identification for Control Cables 7/95 (29KB PDF)
Conductors - The Electron Superhighway 7/94 (23KB PDF)
Conduit Fill 7/96 (30KB PDF)
Current…What is it Anyway? 10/95 (27KB PDF)
Deca-BDE, Not Exempt From RoHS Scrutiny 6/08 (52KB PDF)
Exposed Run Cables 05/05 (39 KB PDF)
Field Tests 10/96 (34KB PDF)
Fire Tests 8/00 (56KB PDF)
Flex-Life Failure Factors (or Let's Get Phlexible) 7/00 (40KB PDF)
Global Wire and Cable Standards - Part I 5/98 (36KB PDF)
Global Wire and Cable Standards - Part II 5/98 (28KB PDF)
Hazardous Location Cable 5/96 (38KB PDF)
IEC Medium Voltage Cable Specifications 9/98 (28KB PDF)
If Voltage Drops, Will It Break? 9/94 (50KB PDF)
Industrial Automation Cable Cross Reference 3/14/95 (196KB PDF)
Instrumentation Tray Cables 2/97 (57KB PDF)
Insulation and Wire Shrinkback 7/07 (56KB PDF)
Length Limitations of PTFE Hookup Wire 12/06 (25KB PDF)
Low Voltage Cable Shielding - What's That? 12/94 (25KB PDF)
Metric Cables: What's Happening 11/94 (28KB PDF)
Metric Conversion M-3 3/08 (72KB PDF)
Minimum Bending Radius 1/96 (29KB PDF)
Norteck and AIA Compared 4/96 (28KB PDF)
"Oversize" Grounds for Electrically Paralleled Cables 10/97 (30KB PDF)
"P-Numbers" …What are They? 12/96 (175KB PDF)
PPAPs for the Automotive Industry 8/06 (32KB PDF)
RoHS, WEEE and ELV 11/04 (27KB PDF)
Safety Marks of North America 1/98 (72KB PDF)
Temperature Ratings 6/06 (98KB PDF)
Thermocouples and Thermocouple Wire 4/00 (46KB PDF)
To Shield or Not to Shield…That is the Question! 8/94 (23KB PDF)
Toxicity of Cable Smoke Verified by Rats! 2/99 (105KB PDF)
VFD Cables - Part I 6/06 (46KB PDF)
VFD Cables - Part II 6/06 (36KB PDF)
Voltage…What is it Really? 11/95 (28KB PDF)
What? ...A Power Cable Doesn't Have an Ampacity Rating? 7/94 (20KB PDF)
Wire Strippability 5/07 (27KB PDF)

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