SPYC

What is SPYC cable?

SPYC: shipboard single-core power and lighting cable, 0.6/1 kV, EPR insulation, PVC sheath, galvanised steel wire braid. Rating: 0.6/1 kV AC, 0.9/1.5 kV DC; conductor 90 °C; 1.5 to 300 mm² (Table 15 Notes 3 and 4, p. 31). Standard: JIS C 3410:2010 Table 1 (p. 2) and Table 15 (p. 31); built on IEC 60092-351, -353, -354, -359 and -376 (Introduction, degree MOD).

Read in JIS C 3410:2010 (JSA English translation), seen: standard. Table 15 (p. 31): tinned or plain annealed stranded copper 1.5 to 300 mm²; EPR insulation 1.0 mm (up to 16 mm²) to 2.4 mm (300 mm²); PVC sheath 1.0 to 1.9 mm; galvanised steel wire braid of 0.3 mm wire (0.4 mm at 300 mm²); PVC protective covering 0.8 to 1.4 mm; routine test 3 500 V. Galvanised steel braid wire 0.3 or 0.4 mm (5.11.1, Table 7, p. 19), one over one under or two over two under, coverage at least 90 % (F at least 0.573, 6.16, p. 23); braid paint and protective covering white at 150/250 V and 0.6/1 kV, red at 3.6/6 and 6/10 kV, grey for fire resistant cables (6.16 c, 6.17, p. 24). Designation (cl. 10, p. 29): the symbol, a hyphen and the conductor size in mm², for multicore cables the number of cores, for telephone cables the number of pairs ("0.6/1 kV SPYC-120", "150/250 V MPYCY-12", "150/250 V TTYC-10"). FA- (flame retardant, bunched test 7.7: char at most 2.5 m) and FR- (fire resistant, mica tape under the insulation, 6.3, IEC 60331-21 or -31, 7.8) prefix the symbol. TMC prints the same name in its catalogue (manufacturer).

Documents and pages the readings were taken from

• JIS C 3410:2010, JSA English translation (first English edition 2011-09): Table 1 types and symbols pp. 2 to 8, Tables 2 and 3 letters pp. 8 to 9, construction Table 15 (p. 31)
• powerandcables.com

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