TPYE

TPYE is a JIS C 3410 shipboard cables cable designation: T = T: three cores, power and lighting; P = P: EP rubber (EPR) insulation; Y = Y: PVC sheath; E = E: earth wire; TPYE = TPYE: shipboard three-core power and lighting cable, 0.6/1 kV, EPR insulation, PVC sheath, with an earth wire. 0.6/1 kV AC, 0.9/1.5 kV DC; conductor 90 °C; 1.5 to 185 mm² (Table 17 Notes 3 and 4, p. 33); earth wire 1.5, 2.5 or 4 mm² (Table 8, p. 22). JIS C 3410:2010 Table 3 note d (p. 9), Table 8 (p. 22), Table 1 (p. 3) and Table 17 (p. 33); built on IEC 60092-351, -353, -354, -359 and -376 (Introduction, degree MOD).

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JIS C 3410 shipboard cables

SymbolMeaning
TT: three cores, power and lighting
PP: EP rubber (EPR) insulation
YY: PVC sheath
EE: earth wire
TPYETPYE: shipboard three-core power and lighting cable, 0.6/1 kV, EPR insulation, PVC sheath, with an earth wire. 0.6/1 kV AC, 0.9/1.5 kV DC; conductor 90 °C; 1.5 to 185 mm² (Table 17 Notes 3 and 4, p. 33); earth wire 1.5, 2.5 or 4 mm² (Table 8, p. 22). JIS C 3410:2010 Table 3 note d (p. 9), Table 8 (p. 22), Table 1 (p. 3) and Table 17 (p. 33); built on IEC 60092-351, -353, -354, -359 and -376 (Introduction, degree MOD)

What is TPYE cable?

TPYE: shipboard three-core power and lighting cable, 0.6/1 kV, EPR insulation, PVC sheath, with an earth wire. Rating: 0.6/1 kV AC, 0.9/1.5 kV DC; conductor 90 °C; 1.5 to 185 mm² (Table 17 Notes 3 and 4, p. 33); earth wire 1.5, 2.5 or 4 mm² (Table 8, p. 22). Standard: JIS C 3410:2010 Table 3 note d (p. 9), Table 8 (p. 22), Table 1 (p. 3) and Table 17 (p. 33); 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 17 (p. 33): three cores of tinned or plain annealed stranded copper 1.5 to 185 mm²; EPR insulation 1.0 mm (up to 16 mm²) to 2.0 mm (185 mm²); PVC sheath 1.2 to 2.7 mm; steel braid wire 0.3 mm (0.4 mm from 70 mm²); PVC protective covering 0.9 to 2.0 mm; routine test 3 500 V. Earth wire (E, Table 3 note d, p. 9): stranded tinned or plain annealed copper in the interstices of the cores, 1.5, 2.5 or 4 mm² (Table 8, p. 22). 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 17 (p. 33)
  • powerandcables.com

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.

TPYE 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

TPYE 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.

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Laying, sizes and datasheet: TPYE

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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