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Bare copper wire insulated with Polyethylene. Two insulated conductors twisted together to form a pair and four such pairs laid up with crossfiller to form the basic unit jacketed with flame-retardant PVC.
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Technical Data - Physical
Color Code
Pair-1
White/Blue
Blue
Conductor
23 AWG solid bare copper
Pair-2
White/Orange
Orange
Conductor diameter–in. (mm)
0.022
(0.56)
Pair-3
White/Green
Green
Insulated conductor diamater
0.039
(0.99)
Pair-4
White/Brown
Brown
Cable diameter–in. (mm)
0.231
(5.87)
Nominal cable weight–lb./kft. (kg/km)
30
(41)
Temperature Rating
Max. installation tension–lb. (N)
25
(110)
Installation
0°C to +50°C
Min. bend radius–in. (mm)
1
(25.4)
Operation
-20°C to +75°C
Mutual Capacitance
5.6 nF/100m max.
DC resistance max.
9.38 Ohms/100 m max.
Skew
35 ns/100 m nom. 45 ns/100 m max
Pair to ground Unbalance
330 pF/100 m max. at 1 kHz
Velocity of Propagation
69% nom. non-plenum
Input Impedance
100 ± 13% 0.772-100 MHz, 100 ± [13+15log (F/100)] 100-500 MHz
DC Resistance Unbalance
3% max.
FREQ(MHz)
SRL(dB)
RL(dB)
INSERTION LOSS(dB/100m)
PS-NEXT(dB)
NEXT(dB)
ACR(dB/100m)
min.
typical
max.
na
44.0
20.0
36.8
2.0
1.7
82.3
101.8
84.3
107.8
102.7
4
46.6
23.6
34.5
3.7
3.5
73.3
88.9
75.3
97.6
71.6
87.2
10
26.0
47.8
38.3
5.8
5.6
67.3
82.6
69.3
89.4
63.5
79.3
16
44.5
7.4
7.2
64.3
79.7
66.3
86.5
58.9
20
45.1
38.9
8.2
8.1
62.5
77.5
64.5
86.8
56.3
71.0
31.25
25.1
53.4
39.3
10.4
10.1
59.9
74.9
61.9
81.9
51.6
66.4
23.5
41.0
39.0
15.0
14.6
55.4
68.4
57.4
74.8
42.4
56.2
100
22.5
43.0
36.4
19.3
18.7
52.3
65.0
54.3
78.1
35.1
47.4
250
20.5
38.4
34.8
32.0
30.7
46.3
63.3
48.3
69.2
16.4
35.6
350
19.8
37.8
41.2
38.7
36.9
44.2
61.0
46.2
67.4
7.6
26.5
500
19.0
35.4
33.6
47.6
41.8
51.4
43.8
60.7
—
600
18.6
33.9
33.4
53.0
49.8
40.6
50.3
42.6
56.0
PS-ACR(dB@100m)
ELFEXT(dB)
PS-ELFEXT(dB)
LCL/TCL(dB@100m)
EL TCTL(dB@100m)
Min.
80.3
100.1
76.8
100.7
73.8
92.1
50.0
35.0
69.6
85.5
64.7
92
61.7
81.8
23.0
61.5
77.1
56.8
80.9
53.8
40.0
56.9
72.7
52.7
76.3
49.7
69.5
38.0
10.9
54.6
50.7
74.5
47.7
67.6
37.0
9.0
49.5
65
46.9
70
43.9
63.8
5.5
40.4
54.2
40.8
59.6
54.9
33.0
46.7
62.1
33.8
52.8
30.0
14.4
33.1
28.8
25.8
46.5
5.4
24.5
25.9
45.6
22.9
37.3
24.6
6.2
22.8
40.3
34.1
-0.2
37.1
29.7
22.2
