Talk:Electrical cable

Vandalism

I don't condioone teh banana incident, but the latest proper edit to the first sentence is equally ridiculous:

"A cable is one or more strands of any number of chemical substances which are solid and bound together to form a larger strand shape. "

Surely "A cable is two or more continuous strands bound together to form a larger strand" would be better?

You can't have a cable with one strand and they have to be continuous so as to exclude single strands of bound, short, fibres (such as 1-ply wool).

But the page is a bit of a mess isn't it?

The Yowser (talk) 13:21, 10 February 2009 (UTC)

Extensible? CBA?

This sentence at the end of the second paragraph may need help: "Tight lays during stranding makes the cable extensible (CBA - as in telephone handset cords)". I am only aware of the term extensible in the context of computer programs being open to extending its capabilities. I have no idea what "CBA" means here. Can someone redo this sentence so it makes more sense to the lay person? Balfa 13:28, 23 August 2006 (UTC)

Extendable telephone cords are made so by coiling. I'm unclear how a tight lay comes into that.

I suggest deleting this sentence. Using uncommon abbreviations and terms will only confuse readers.Nikonoff (talk) 17:15, 10 December 2008 (UTC)

Other

what are the names of these cables?

http://www.chantalcurrid.com/Remote/Images/PWires.jpg

"twin-coax"?

http://doityourself.com/ori/200x200/1271105.jpg

First one is twin screened. Second image not found.

Tabby (talk) 23:10, 11 January 2008 (UTC)

propose change to classifications

At the moment, cable constructions fall randomly under two headings: Basic and Construction. I propose that these headings are removed and all the descriptions then fall under a single "Type" heading. I view this as an improvement because classifications are generally by type (eg. coax, twinax, twisted pair, single wire,......) rather than by "basic" or "construction" then by subtype!

Lippjd 13:41, 16 January 2007 (UTC)

"Cables can be sorted into several categories and types. Generally it can by sorted into two main groups, structural and informatic. "

Shouldnt power be added? Or does it somehow come under one of those 2? Tabby (talk) 23:08, 11 January 2008 (UTC)

Computer cables

Here's what I want to know. You know how a lot of computer cables (e.g. monitor and printer cables) have those little screws on the side that attach it to the computer so that they don't fall out accidentally? Why don't computer power cables have those? I would think that's the cable that you would least want to have fall out accidentally (e.g. if you move the computer while it's on). Is it because there might be some kind of fire or something, in which you would want to unplug it really quickly without reaching your hand close to the computer for prolonged periods of time in order to unscrew that cable? Captain Zyrain 21:12, 12 October 2007 (UTC)

Here's my guess: The plug and jack on the power cable are pretty rugged – just three large pins – and probably don't need the additional mechanical support. The monitor cable has tiny, weak, pins and closer tolerances, so they give you the screws. --Ong saluri (talk) 05:56, 9 March 2009 (UTC)

Article focus

You can't just willy-nilly jam together electrical, fiber optic, and mechanical cables in a pile and call it an article. This needs careful refactoring and will likely turn into a disambiguation page.

If this level of organization becomes typical of Wikipedia articles, we'll ultimately have only one article called Stuff. --Wtshymanski (talk) 14:06, 17 October 2008 (UTC)

Rename

Since this article is only about electrical cables, how about calling it Cable (electrical) ? --Wtshymanski (talk) 03:25, 3 January 2010 (UTC)

CVVS control cables

During a discustion on Foundation Fieldbus Technology the term for an existing cable came up of CVVS-1.25 mm2. What does CVVS stand for? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 65.203.111.12 (talk) 14:41, 30 June 2010 (UTC)