Looking to purchase the best split wire loom tubing? Here are some tips and extra details helping you to make the best choice. There are seven different types of conduit used commonly in residential and light commercial wiring. Rigid metal conduit, or RMC, is heavy-duty galvanized steel tubing that is installed with threaded fittings. It is typically used outdoors to provide protection from damage and can also provide structural support for electrical cables, panels, and other equipment. RMC is sold in 10- and 20-foot lengths and has threads on both ends.
Expandable Sleeving: This sleeving can expand (typically to twice the ID size) and still contract to original ID size to keep wire bundles in place with a protective grip. This loom comes six different types: standard PE (available in black, red, yellow and blue), flame retardant, clean cut (can be cut with scissors), heavy wall, super duty and flat filament. If you need high abrasion resistance, we would recommend our heavy wall, super duty or flat filament expandable sleeving.
Flexible metal conduit is best known by its nickname “Greenfield,” for its inventor, Harry Greenfield. It is a spiraling metal tubing that bends easily and is commonly used for short, exposed runs in household circuits, such as connections for garbage disposers, hot water heaters and furnaces. FMC is suitable for dry locations only and must be supported every 4 1/2 feet and within 12 inches of each electrical box. It can be used as a ground path only with approved fittings and only where flexibility is not an issue after it is installed. For example, if it’s connected to a motor that vibrates, the conduit cannot be used for grounding.
Flexible metallic conduit (also known as FMC) can be a practical choice for the large construction projects, for example building the underground car park. This particular conduit relies on interlocking metal coils to produce a long tube that lets the wires move through. By interlocking the individual pieces it can be possible to make a very flexible material. It really is practical to the installation protects that take place in a dry environment, but needs to be avoided if you have a risk of the water penetration. Read extra info at Wire loom tubing.
When choosing your conduit cable it’s important that you choose the correct material for the project you are undertaking, this is to ensure the safety of yourself and others, also to promote high performance of the tubing. Typical conduit materials that you will find from RS Components are nylon, steel, galvanised steel, PVC and stainless steel amongst a whole host of others.
Metal flexible conduit is widely used in wire and cable protection. Now days, metal flexible conduit is becoming more and more popular in pipe systems. Why we often choose metal flexible conduit in complex piping system. You can find the reasons as follow. As our experience, there are often difficulties due to space position conditions, so it is also hard to install. Furthermore, the formed pipe can not be loaded, bending over, coming over. We have to calculate the accurate bending size based on a complex situation. It is a big project in installation. Practice has proved that the larger the amount, the higher the internal stress, and the installation stress of these residues in the pipeline system is undoubtedly extremely invisible. Read extra info on www.flexconduit.com.
Rigid metal conduit is a heavier gauge steel electrical conduit using threaded couplings and fittings and is the thickest, or stiffest of the conduit materials used for electrical wiring. A typical RMC and often the only RMC residential application is to enclose the electrical service entry wiring from the electrical company’s overhead wires at the mast-head down to the electrical panel mounted on the building wall.