What is the difference between armoured unarmoured and flexible cables?

Answer 1

Armored electrical cable contains insulated electrical service wires protected by a flexible steel covering. Unarmored electrical cable has no protective flexible steel covering, its covering is made of plastic.

Answer 2

Hi all,

First of all I would like to clear a very big confusion among the people regarding armored fiber optic cable; most of the people think that fiber optic armored cable means cable with metal protection. Its totally wrong concept.

First we need to understand that armoring is a technique to protect the cable and second question will come about the materiel which will be used to protect the cable. It may be fiber yarn, glass yarn & Polyethylene etc. It may be the non metal material.

Now I tell you about the difference between armored and non armored cable

Its very simple that is armored cable will be with extra protection layer cable and non armored cable will be very simple cable that does not have any extra protection material.

Regards

Tam

Answer 3

The difference between and armoured and un-armoured cable is in their outer layers. Armoured cable has additional outer protective layer of steel or aluminium while un-armoured has a PVC or nylon outer sheath.

Answer 4

Armored Cable:

Armored electrical cable contains insulated electrical service wires protected by a flexible steel covering.

Unarmored Cable:

Unarmored electrical cable has no protective flexible steel covering, its covering is made of plastic.

Answer 5

As the name suggests, an armoured cable is protected against mechanical damage, whereas an unarmoured cable is not. Armoured cables are normally underground cables, which can be subject to damage from pieces of rock, etc., which may be in the trench backfill, or from excavation tools.

The 'armour' is a layer of overlapping metal (usually steel) tapes or wires that form the outermost metallic layer of a cable in order to protect the cable's waterproof sheath. This armour layer is itself protected against corrosion with a protective sheath.