Highly flexible drag chain cable
Made to bend.Millions of times.
A drag chain cable moves with the machine, usually in a cable carrier. An ordinary installation cable cannot keep that up. A highly flexible cable can, if the class suits the travel distance and the number of movements.
Explanation
What makes a cable suitable for the cable carrier?
- Series on this page
- 8
- Variants
- 185
- Cycles up to
- 10 million
- Travel length up to
- 1000 m
By drag chain cable we mean a cable that moves with the machine in a cable carrier. With every stroke it bends through the carrier's bend, hundreds of thousands to millions of times. That requires a different construction than a fixed cable: fine-stranded conductors, a short lay length and a wear-resistant jacket.
TRAXLINE divides the cables into classes: 200, 400, 700 and 1000. The class is in the name and says how many cycles and what travel distance the cable can handle. Class 200 is bend-flexible and intended for short strokes. From 400 upwards the control and power cables are highly flexible and bundle-stranded.
The class also fixes the jacket: PVC in 200 and 400, PUR in 700 and TPE in 1000. PVC is enough in a dry, clean environment. As soon as there is oil, coolant or heavy wear, choose PUR or TPE.
A cable that hangs freely or drags across the floor, as with a festoon system, is a different story. This page is about cables in the cable carrier. The trade-off between the two is in our article on cable carrier or festoon.
From the cable data
Control cables by class
The control cables show the four classes best: from bend-flexible PVC to highly flexible TPE. Power, data and bus cables follow the same classification.
CONTROL 200
- Type
- Control cables
- Sheath
- PVC
- Shielding
- Unshielded
- Cycles
- 2 million
- Travel length
- 25 m
- Ø
- 4,7–16,8 mm
CONTROL 200 C
- Type
- Control cables
- Sheath
- PVC
- Shielding
- Shielded
- Cycles
- 2 million
- Travel length
- 25 m
- Ø
- 6,4–19,6 mm
CONTROL 400 600V
- Type
- Control cables
- Sheath
- PVC
- Shielding
- Unshielded
- Cycles
- 4 million
- Travel length
- 100 m
- Ø
- 5,8–21 mm
CONTROL 400 C 600V
- Type
- Control cables
- Sheath
- PVC
- Shielding
- Shielded
- Cycles
- 4 million
- Travel length
- 100 m
- Ø
- 8,3–26,7 mm
CONTROL 700 600V
- Type
- Control cables
- Sheath
- PUR
- Shielding
- Unshielded
- Cycles
- 7 million
- Travel length
- 500 m
- Ø
- 5,8–21,8 mm
CONTROL 700 C 600V
- Type
- Control cables
- Sheath
- PUR
- Shielding
- Shielded
- Cycles
- 7 million
- Travel length
- 500 m
- Ø
- 7,9–29,9 mm
CONTROL 1000 TPE 300/500V
- Type
- Control cables
- Sheath
- TPE
- Shielding
- Unshielded
- Cycles
- 10 million
- Travel length
- 1000 m
- Ø
- 9,6–20,2 mm
CONTROL 1000 C TPE 300/500V
- Type
- Control cables
- Sheath
- TPE
- Shielding
- Shielded
- Cycles
- 10 million
- Travel length
- 1000 m
- Ø
- 12,5–30 mm
Classes
What each class can handle
Across all TRAXLINE series, from the cable data. The travel distance differs per cable type; check the series for the exact limit.
200
- Sheath
- PVC
- Flexibility
- Flexible in bending
- Cycles up to
- 2 million
- Travel length up to
- 25 m
- Series
- 2
- Variants
- 57
400
- Sheath
- PVC
- Flexibility
- Highly flexible
- Cycles up to
- 4 million
- Travel length up to
- 50–100 m
- Series
- 5
- Variants
- 109
700
- Sheath
- PUR
- Flexibility
- Highly flexible
- Cycles up to
- 7 million
- Travel length up to
- 5–500 m
- Series
- 27
- Variants
- 247
1000
- Sheath
- TPE
- Flexibility
- Highly flexible
- Cycles up to
- 10 million
- Travel length up to
- 400–1000 m
- Series
- 7
- Variants
- 108
Choose
How to choose the class
01Count the movements
Strokes per hour × operating hours per year × years gives the number of cycles. Choose a class that is safely above that.
02Measure the travel
For control and power cables the travel distance ranges from 25 m in class 200 to 1000 m in class 1000.
03Look at the environment
Oil, coolant, chips or heavy wear: choose PUR or TPE.
04Choose the shielding
Signals and controlled motors: shielded (C). Simple control current: unshielded is enough.
05Check the diameter
Inner height of the carrier at least Ø × 1.1, radius at least 7.5 × the Ø of the thickest cable.
06Lay straight
Without torsion, not crossed, with strain relief at both ends.
Next steps
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