General Electrical Wiring Information Page

General information

• Application of Baluns - basics of impedance matching device for interfacing two lines having different characteristic impedance and often one balanced line to one unbalanced line
• AWG to Metric Conversion Chart
• Cabling Terminology and Standards - perspective to various terms and standards associated with structured cabling
• Cable U - training and technical support on communications cabling
• Coaxial Cables - characteristics and installtion remarks by Cavel
• Controlling Electric Hazards - basic overview
• Network Wiring - general introduction to structured cabling system
• Standard Types Of Metallic Cables

Glossaries

• Cable glossary
• Glossary of Electric Utility Terminology

FAQs

• Data Communications Cabling FAQ

Resource pages

• Cabling Contractors Directory - find contractors and installers easily, covers USA

Protection, reliabity and fault locating

• Cable Fault Locating: Theory and Practice - electric utilities often face the problem of finding the exact location of a failure in a distribution cable

How to work with cables

• Coaxial Connector Attachment - how to install BNC type connector to coaxial cable

Technical information

General

• Cable Anatomy - papers on audio and instrument cables
• Characteristic Impedance, Velocity Factor and Skin Effect Formulas
• Copper wire resistance and amperage ratings
• Going to Ground - information on general instrumentation cables, EMI, EMC, interferences, shielding, balanced line, grounding, includes case study on Lighting & Stage Control
• National Wire and Cable Custom Cable Design Guide - lots of cable information
• Signal Delay in Cables
• Wire Gauge Spreadsheet - little spreadsheet will calculate various parameters associated with copper wire

Cable markings

• AWG/Metric Conversion Table
• Cable Specifications - what the heck is SO, SJO, SC cable
• Metric/AWG wire size equivalents

Cable resistance

• Electrical Resistivity of Materials
• Skin Effect - skin effect is a physical phenomenon that relates to the limited penetration into a conductor of a high frequency signal according to its frequency
• Skin effect formula and wire guages - look also Modeling Skin Effect

Cable capacitance and insulation

• Basic Introductory Information on Capacitance of Shielded Wires and Cables
• Material Constants - information on wire conductor and insulation materials

Coaxial cables

• Cable Chart - technical information on various coaxial cables
• Cable impedance - what is cable characteristic impedance
• Cable Specification Guide - information on coaxial and twisted pair cables
• Characteristic Impedance of Cable at High and Low Frequencies
• Coaxial Cable Types: Characteristics of all the coax cables with "RG" type numbers
• K1TTT Technical Reference - coax cable attenuation charts and other technical information
• Parameters for Coaxial Lines
• Pasternack Connector Identifier - pictures to help to identify different coaxial cable connector types and impedances
• Return Loss Specifications - what they are
• RG8, RG213, RG214, RG58, RG59, RG174, RG62 coaxial cables - table of technical data

Twisted pair wiring

• Cable impedance - what is cable characteristic impedance
• Cable Specification Guide - information on coaxial and twisted pair cables
• Lossy Transmission Line Model
• Return Loss Specifications - what they are
• Total Reflected Energy to Input Impedance in Balanced Pair Transmission Line - emerging specifications, marketing information, and popular perception have attempted to position Zin as the preferred method of specifying reflected energy in premises cabling
• Twisted-pair transmission-line distributed parameters - pdf document with mathematics in it

Signal and cable matching

• A Question of Balance: A look at voltage current, video, cables and where balun fits in - technical document in pdf format
• A Transmission line calculator - a little transmission line calculator applet for matching and losses, has data of some common cable types
• Ribbon Cable Impedance - what is impedance of normal ribbon cable in different configurations
• Matching 75 Ohms to 50 Ohms

Cable color codes

• What's Hot Is Hot and What's Not Is Ground - information on wiring and color codes in homes in USA
• Color codes of AC power cords - European standard
• Multicore colour codes - multipair twisted pair cables from Belden and with IEC color codes

Installing connectors

• BNC Connector Attachment
• Crimp technique instructions - how to install crimp sleeve to end of cable

Related pages

• Electrical wiring page page