When do you turn to a custom wire or cable? Custom wire and cable is needed more often than not. There are a variety of reasons design engineers turn to custom wire and cable for their projects, but the main reason is simply they cannot find a ready-made cable that meets all their requirements. Making …
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It is common to make changes to medical cables for medical devices from the original design. The reasons medical cables often are redesigned is to improve performance, add flexibility to a cable or eliminate cable design flaws. Often, minor design changes are made to the medical cable as feedback from the end user and/or field …
Every medical cable application is different so why settle for an off the shelf solution for a unique problem? I read quite a few discussion boards and find that when someone is looking for a specialized medical cable that the replies usually tell them to call Belden or Alpha. There is nothing wrong with Alpha …
Medical cables do differ from generic cables used in other industries. It isn’t recommended to use standard/ generic wire and cable in your medical device design unless the wire or cable doesn’t need to meet any medical requirements or is used internally in your device. Every industry has it’s unique requirements when it comes to …
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Custom wire and cable manufacturers have the ability to extrude a variety of shapes, from round, flat cables, odd shaped cables, tubing to wine corks. Extruding machines can be outfitted with dies and tooling to create different extruded shapes. The extrusion process is different than injection molding, the heated plastic or rubber material is forced …
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High voltage wire applications can be found in every industry. High voltage wire and cable doesn’t have to be bulky and stiff. High voltage lead wire and cables can be manufactured to be extremely flexible wire and cable while meeting high voltage requirements by using high strand conductors and flexible wire insulation and jacket materials. …
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