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A customer of mine has supplied some of his own cable. It appears to be 2.5mm2 copper twin and earth. It has a grey tough oversheath, (difficult to strip) marked DESCO P. It has a bare centrally placed C.P.C. The live conductors are insulated with Brown and Black coloured insulation. No B.S. markings.


Does anyone know its origin or anything else about it please?


Z.




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    This cable has been insulation resistance tested at 1000 Volts and has infinite resistance on the small sample that I took home (0.25 metre) . The conductors have been tested with my micrometer and are full sized 2.5mm2. As to the copper content I am not sure, and my small length is too short to fully undertake a resistance test of conductor resistance. The conductors are not plated aluminium, but appear to be solid copper. 


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    This cable has been insulation resistance tested at 1000 Volts and has infinite resistance on the small sample that I took home (0.25 metre) . The conductors have been tested with my micrometer and are full sized 2.5mm2. As to the copper content I am not sure, and my small length is too short to fully undertake a resistance test of conductor resistance. The conductors are not plated aluminium, but appear to be solid copper. 


    Z.
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