A 3C Ribbon cable (aka multi wire planar cable) is a flat cable with conducting wires running parallel to each other on the same flat plane. Used in a variety of applications such as hard drives, CD drives, floppy drives, internal computer peripherals, laptops and portable electronic equipment.
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Construction of this special 3C ribbon is made up of
3 x 22AWG stranded tinned copper wires extruded with pvc ribbed sheath which is black with a white stripe. By convention the edge with the stripe is connected to pin 1 on the connector. Ribbon cables are usually specified by two numbers – the spacing or pitch of the wires and the number of conductors. This particular cable is 3c 2.0 pitch
Cable jacket material is pvc compound with a 300v rating. Operating temp is 85DegC and overall nominal size of the ribbon is 1.6mm / 5.6mm.
Sheath colour in this instance is black but we can offer any colour (rainbow included) ribbon cables if requested.
Cable can be supplied in lengths of 100m on plastic spools..
Ribbon cable complies with EU RoHS 2 Directive 2011/65/EU, and REACH.
If you require a specific design please contact us.