FPY

FPY is a JIS C 3410 shipboard cables cable designation: F = F: four cores, power and lighting; P = P: EP rubber (EPR) insulation; Y = Y: PVC sheath; FPY = FPY: shipboard four-core power and lighting cable, 0.6/1 kV, EPR insulation, PVC sheath. 0.6/1 kV; conductor 90 C (TMC p.6, p.10, p.12). TMC catalogue name (TMC cites JIS C 3410(2010)); not a type of JIS C 3410:2010 Table 1.

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JIS C 3410 shipboard cables

SymbolMeaning
FF: four cores, power and lighting
PP: EP rubber (EPR) insulation
YY: PVC sheath
FPYFPY: shipboard four-core power and lighting cable, 0.6/1 kV, EPR insulation, PVC sheath. 0.6/1 kV; conductor 90 C (TMC p.6, p.10, p.12). TMC catalogue name (TMC cites JIS C 3410(2010)); not a type of JIS C 3410:2010 Table 1

What is FPY cable?

FPY: shipboard four-core power and lighting cable, 0.6/1 kV, EPR insulation, PVC sheath. Rating: 0.6/1 kV; conductor 90 C (TMC p.6, p.10, p.12). Standard: TMC catalogue name (TMC cites JIS C 3410(2010)); not a type of JIS C 3410:2010 Table 1.

Not in JIS C 3410:2010 Table 1 (pp. 2 to 8): TMC's own variant, so its values stay at seen level manufacturer. JIS Table 2 (p. 8) has F for four cores, but Table 1 lists no four or more core PY cable for power. Name printed in the TMC index p.4 ('(FA-) FPY'). TMC 'Marine & Shipboard Cable, JIS C 3410(2010) / IEC 60092-350, 353, 354, 376' (manufacturer), p.4 'Code Designation': FA- flame retardant, FR- fire resistance, FR-FA-, S / D / T / F single to four cores for power and lighting, M multi core for control and signal, TT telephone and instrumentation; material letters, column alignment checked on a rendered image of p.4: insulation P EP rubber, Y PVC, C XLPE; sheath Y PVC; armouring C steel wire, CB copper alloy wire; protective covering Y PVC; others SLA common shield (AL/PS tape), -SLA individual shield (AL/PS tape), -S individual shield (copper braid), E earth wire, (C) cold type (not read here). Notes: telephone cables omit the insulation letter; CB for a copper alloy braid (0.6/1KV SPYCB, SPYCBY); E suffixed for an earth wire (0.6/1kV TPYE). Pp.6, 10, 12: stranded tinned annealed copper, EPR and PVC to JIS C 3410(2010), braid coverage min. 90 %, conductor 90 C, IEC 60332-1 (FA-: IEC 60332-3 Cat. A).

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JIS C 3410 shipboard cables: how to read the cable type names

Fire behaviour (EU CPR)

A CPR class is declared by the maker in its Declaration of Performance and printed on the sheath (EN 50575 cl 7). This decoder does not assign one. What the CPR classes mean →

Sources: EN 13501-6 draft and FprEN 50575:2014 final draft (drafts, not the published texts); IEC 60332-3-24:2000+A1:2008; EN 13501-3 draft A2.

FPY as the cable designer builds it, 1x16 0.6/1 kV

Overall diameter 9.7 mm, about 220 kg/km. Nominal values from the standard's tables for this size, computed, not a maker's data.

LayerMaterialThickness, mmOver the layer, mm
InsulationEPR1.06.9
SheathPVC1.49.7

FPY on a drum

The smallest drum that passes every check, for 9.7 mm and about 220 kg/km as the cable designer builds it. Drums as their makers print them; lengths are estimates: whole layers wound nested (each turn in the groove of the layer below), wound diameter 1.05 × OD, 50 mm freeboard under the flange rim. Cable makers' own tables print less, as they count aligned layers.

LengthDrum size (its makers)LayersGross weight
500 mKTG 6 (600 mm flange), plywood KTG drums (Europe), Bayka12 of 14117 kg
1,000 mKTG 8 (800 mm flange), wood KTG drums (Europe), Bayka, KTG16 of 16251–255 kg

Barrel at least 20 × OD = 194 mm for a cable of this kind (Low voltage, single core): KTG table, the cable's datasheet wins. A load rating is the drum maker's own.

Other lengths, drums and weights: the cable drum calculator

Load it on a truck: 1000 m on its drum in the loading planner

Laying, sizes and datasheet: FPY

Current rating and voltage drop: One circuit, C: cable on a wall, 30 °C air: about 96 A. At that current over 100 m, three-phase 400 V, cos φ 0.9: a voltage drop of about 5.6 %. Sources: IEC 60364-5-52:2009, Table B.52.5, p. 44; IEC 60228:2023 Table 4, p. 13; IEC 60228:2023 Annex B, p. 18; IEC 60364-5-52:2009 (ed. 3.0) Annex G (informative), pp. 74 to 75 (read in the standard text) Cable size calculator: smallest section for a load, every factor shown · Voltage drop calculator: IEC 60364-5-52 method and limits

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