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Igus Chainflex® CF38 Stranded Bare Copper Shielded TC Braid TPE 600V Motor Cable

Also Known as:

Control Cable, Chainflex Cable, Chainflex® CF38 Cable, CF38 Cable, Flexible Cable, IGUS Cable, Continues-Flex Cable, Dynamic Cable, Flexing Cable, Flex Cable, Linear Motion Cable

Description:

Chainflex® Motor Cable CF38

Typical application areas:

• For heaviest duty applications
• Almost unlimited resistance to oil, also with bio-oils
• Indoor and outdoor applications, UV resistant
• Unsupported and gliding travel distances up to 1,312 ft (400 m) and more
• Storage and retrieval units for high-bay warehouses, machining units/machine tools, quick handling, cleanroom, semiconductor insertion, outdoor cranes, low-temperature applications

Construction:

• Conductor: 
16 - 10 AWG: Conductor consisting of bare copper wires (according to DIN EN 60228).
8 - 1 AWG: Conductor cable consisting of pre-leads (following DIN EN 60228)

• Conductor Insulation: Mechanically high-quality, especially low-capacitance XLPE mixture

• Conductor Construction: Conductors cabled with short pitch length around a high-tensile strength core.

• Outer Jacket: Low-adhesion mixture on the basis of TPE, especially abrasion-resistant and highly flexible, adapted to suit the requirements in E-Chains®.

• Color Code:

Black with white numbers, one conductor green-yellow.
1. U / L1 / C / L+
2. V / L2
3. W / L3 / D / L4. 4 / N
5. green/yellow

• Inner Jacket: TPE mixture adapted to suit the requirements in E-Chains®.

• Overall Shield; Extremely bending-resistant tinned copper braid. 90 % optical coverage

• CFRIP®: Strip 50% faster: a tear strip is molded into the inner jacket

Properties and Approvals:

• UV Resistance: High
• Oil Resistance: Oil-resistant (following DIN EN 60811-404), bio-oil-resistant (following VDMA 24568 with Plantocut 8 S-MB tested by DEA), Class 4
• Silicone-free: Free from silicone which can affect paint adhesion (following PV 3.10.7 – status 1992)
• Halogen-free: Following DIN EN 60754
• UL verified: Certificate No. B129699: igus 36-month chainflex cable guarantee and service life calculator based on 2 billion test cycles per year
• EAC: Certificate No. RU C-DE.ME77.B.02324 (TR ZU)
• REACH: In accordance with regulation (EC) No. 1907/2006 (REACH)
• Lead-free: Following 2011/65/EC (RoHS-II/RoHS-III)
• Clean Room: According to ISO Class 1. The outer jacket material of this series complies with CF9.15.07 - tested by IPA according to standard DIN EN ISO 14644-1
• CE: Following 2014/35/EU

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