TYPE IRRIGATION CABLE
Scope
This specification covers type irrigation cable with soft annealed copper stranded conductor, insulated with PE ,cabled utilizing a PVC inner jacket ,and an aluminum shield bonded to a PE outer jacket offering excellent mechanical strength and moisture resistance. Cable is conforming to Standard 1263 of Underwriters Laboratories, Inc.
Application
Type Irrigation cable is designed to operate electric motor driven irrigation systems .Type Irrigation Cable is rated 75℃ and permitted for 600V application.
Construction
Conductors: Soft annealed stranded copper ,bare or coated.
Sizes:18AWG-4/0AWG.
Insulation: PE. Thickness: per UL1263.
Color coding:
| Number of conductors | Color |
| 4 | black, blue, red, green w/yellow tracer |
| 10 | black, blue, red, green w/yellow tracer,
brown, orange, yellow, purple, pink, white |
| 11 | black, blue, red, green w/yellow tracer,
brown, orange, yellow, purple, pink, white, yellow w/red tracer |
Inner jacket: Flame-retardant PVC. Minimum average wall thickness 0.76mm.
Shield: Corrugated aluminum specially coated and applied in order to bond to the outer jacket with a total minimum thickness of 0.2mm.
Outer jacket: Sunlight resistant PE. Minimum average wall thickness 1.27mm.
Information on the jacket: AWG or kcmil size, conductor type letters, rated voltage, the name of the manufacturer, UL file number, characteristic, manufacture date, FEET.
Table 1
Conductor Data
| Size
AWG |
Strands
No./OD. (mm) |
PE
Insulation Average Thickness (mm) |
Max.DC
Resistance (20℃, Ω/km) (Bare Copper) |
| 18 | 7/0.39 | 0.51 | 21.8 |
| 16 | 7/0.49 | 0.51 | 13.7 |
| 14 | 7/0.62 | 0.51 | 8.62 |
| 12 | 7/0.77 | 0.51 | 5.43 |
| 10 | 7/0.98 | 0.64 | 3.409 |
Table 2
Type Irrigation Cable Data
| Size
AWG |
PVC Inner
Jacket Average Thickness (mm) |
Aluminum
Shield Thickness (mm) |
Approx.
O.D. (mm) |
Approx.
Weight (kg/km) |
| 14/4 | 0.76 | 0.25 | 12.9 | 196.04 |
| 12/4+16/7 | 0.76 | 0.25 | 17.2 | 397.16 |
| 12/4+14/7 | 0.76 | 0.25 | 18.2 | 462.38 |
| 10/4+14/7 | 0.76 | 0.25 | 19.9 | 563.55 |
| 14/4+18/6 | 0.76 | 0.25 | 16.7 | 288.61 |
| 12/4+14/6 | 0.76 | 0.25 | 18.0 | 432.50 |
| 10/4+14/6 | 0.76 | 0.25 | 19.7 | 534.97 |