by Thom Chandler » Thu Mar 18, 2021 11:14 am
A little side trip into the wire selection process for the techies. Everyone else is free to nap, as this is going to get real boring real fast.
My main focus apart from voltage rating and physical sizing is of course smoke emission.
UL1685 guidelines are as close as I feel relevant, assuming that vertical tests are going to see faster flame propagation and therefore more smoke emission than near* horizontal deployment.
LSZH type wire is going to be the jacket of choice due to its performance in such tests.
Following the obvious logic, less smoke produced means that in the event of a component failure there should theoretically be enough smoke remaining to finish a set or a gig, dependent of course on the severity of the component failure.
*Refer to my 4th post in this thread.
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Thom Chandler on Fri Jun 18, 2021 7:03 am, edited 2 times in total.
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