Ask a Cable Assemblies Manufacturer: Choosing Components
Each component selected by a cable assemblies manufacturer affects the final performance of your finished product. When designing or maintaining a piece of equipment, a lot can depend on the decisions made by your cable assemblies manufacturer. Selecting the wrong gauge for the wire or a jacketing material that’s inappropriate for the environment can, at…
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Conductor Gauges for Custom Design Cables
The right gauge conductors are key to making your custom design cables as effective as possible. It’s no secret that creating custom design cables is the best way to ensure your product or equipment meets all of your specifications. Because the conductor gauge directly affects the flow of electricity or signal through the final product,…
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5 Benefits of Custom Cable Assemblies
Custom cable assemblies offer many benefits over off-the-shelf products…including cost. It’s possible there’s a standard cable that matches the needs of your equipment perfectly. However, it’s much more likely that you will have to make do with something that is almost right, which can lead to technical issues that can cause bigger problems down the…
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The Quality Control Process of a Cable Assembly Manufacturer
A reputable cable assembly manufacturer ensures reliable products with a solid quality control process. The quality and reliability of the wires and cables a cable assembly manufacturer produces is often of paramount importance. This is especially true of cables and wires designed for military or medical applications, where the safety and longevity of the product…
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Wire Harness 101 with a Wire & Cable Manufacturer
Wire harnesses can be tricky without the help of an experienced wire and cable manufacturer. At its most basic, a wire harness is an effective way to organize wires or cables by grouping or bundling them together in order to transmit signal or electrical power. They can be used in almost any application that requires…
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Ask a Cable Assemblies Manufacturer: Solid vs. Stranded Cable
Choosing between solid and stranded conductors is one of the first decisions made in a custom cable design. There are two main choices a cable assemblies manufacturer has for the conductor when designing a custom cable: solid and stranded. The most basic difference is obvious when you peel back the jacketing and look at the…
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Talking Materials with a Coil Cord Manufacturer
The right materials can make or break the function of a custom coil cord. A coil cord manufacturer does more to create a custom coil cord than just curl a straight cord into a spiral. Because they are meant to extend and retract, materials must be somewhat flexible in addition to the technical requirements dictated…
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Discussing Filler Materials with Your Cable Assembly Manufacturer
Your choice of filler materials can affect the sequence of components, the strength, and even the appearance of your custom cable. When meeting with a cable assembly manufacturer, filler materials might not be at the top of your list of subject to discuss. However, filler material is an important component of your finished custom cable…
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Determining Custom Coil Cord Quality
There are a few things you can ask about to ensure your custom coil cord has the quality you require. Many manufacturers are able to produce a custom coil cord to a wide variety of specifications. However, it can be difficult to tell you have a quality product with a quick visual inspection. Each element,…
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Wire and Cable Manufacturers: The Design & Manufacturing Process
Most people don’t spend a lot of time thinking about the wire harnesses that are literally all around them. In many cases, these wire harnesses are powering or carrying information to equipment we use every day at home or at our jobs. Since they tend to be hidden away, we often don’t realize how important…
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