Tuesday, January 8, 2013

Copper can do wonders when used properly for cables and wires!



Copper is a very useful metal and fortunately it is available in abundance in many parts of the world. You will find that the copper wire is widely used in electrical equipment such as vacuum cleaners, electric motors in home appliances etc. Copper as a metal exhibits very important properties such as ductility, malleability, being a good conductor of heat and electricity. Talking about cable industries, copper is the core element used for wiring. At the time of extraction, copper is found with some other metals as well. Before it can be used in its original form, copper goes through a proper procedure of purification after extraction.

The metal is thick and therefore, it can behold a large amount of electricity. Also, it can hold both low and high voltage current in the wiring used for electrical equipment. The braided wire contains maximum amount of voltage primarily due to higher surface area. This is a reason that you will generally see a bunch of wires being used totransfer larger amount of electricity than single wires. Copper also gets a coating of tin through the tow processes:
  •  Electrolytic process – In this, the wire is coated with tin electronically and the coating is done evenly
  • Hot dip process –The wire to be coated passes through melted tin and the coating happens automatically 
It can be seen that there are many ways in which copper can be combined to use it on a wider scale.


 






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