UV Resistant Outdoor Cables for Exposed Installations

Sunlight is hard on many cable sheaths, and failures tend to show up only after years outdoors. AP Technology supplies UV resistant outdoor cables for exposed installations, where cracked jackets could otherwise lead to water getting in and to early replacement. Applications include solar, street furniture, external machinery, signage and site equipment. Standard cable may also be over sheathed for outdoor service, and that can be a practical solution if the electrical construction you need already exists. Standard cable can often be adapted instead of starting from nothing. AP Technology offers over sheathing in materials such as PUR, PE or LSOH, over armouring with galvanised steel wire braid or single wire armour for direct burial, and spiral striping to make individual cables easier to identify. It is a quicker way of getting an off the shelf product to do a special job. Getting cable right starts with how it will actually be used. Fixed installation, drag chain travel, continuous bending and torsion all ask different things of a conductor, screen and sheath.

Sheath material then comes down to the surroundings, whether that means oil, UV, direct burial or a space where low smoke zero halogen material is preferred. The AP Technology team starts with the application and works back to the construction. Interconnect problems rarely stop at one component. Because AP Technology supplies cable, connectors, glands and finished assemblies under one roof, it can look at the whole connection and not just one part of it. That is useful when a change to cable diameter affects the gland, or a different connector changes how the assembly should be built. Need a price or some technical advice on UV resistant outdoor cables for exposed installations? Call 020 8848 3074 or email connect@aptechnology.biz with your application details and any part numbers you have.