Type 'E' thermocouple comp multicore cable

[ScottyUK]

I having problems over here in the UK obtaining type 'E' thermocouple compensating cable in a reasonably sensible length - a couple of hundred metres, not a mile or more - and at a halfway reasonable price. Specifically I'm looking for multicore comp cable, 12-pair and 20-pair. The machine the t/c's are on is a Westinghouse turbine built in the US, and I assume type 'E' is more common there than in Europe where types 'K' and 'T' dominate in the low / medium temperature ranges. Either that or the designers were having a laugh and fitted us up with oddball thermocouples that no one uses.

Any of you US members know anyone who might have a few hundred yards on stock? I am, or rather my contractor is, in the crap on this job and consequently I'm in the stinky stuff with him so shipping it as surface cargo is definitely an option and airfreight isn't out of the question. I am not looking for singles, it must be multicore, and I'd appreciate definite sources rather than prospective suppliers.

Thanks for reading even if you can't help!


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[GTstartup]

Not much help for a source, but just to let you know that type K is much more common on turbines than E. In fact I've never seen an E type Thermocouple on a turbine here.

Are you sure it's E? K is red and yellow here (US).

 

[btrueblood]

Scotty, see

http://www.nanmac.com/handbook/productindex.htm

 

[btrueblood]

Hmm...that didn't go all the way to the page I was looking at...from the link I posted, click the header on the left side where it says "Multi-Pair Tc Cable".

 

[itsmoked]

Try these guys?

http://www.multicable.com/families....C=standard&OVADID=554457522&OVKWID=2154829522

Keith Cress
kcress -

http://www.flaminsystems.com

 

[dpc]

In ANSI-land it would be Type EX.

 

[dpc]

http://www.cobrawire.com/thermocouple/ex.php

FWIW, scroll down the page - they list multi-pair cables. I have no idea about actual availability.

Dave

 

[ScottyUK]

Thank you all - some leads to follow up at least. We'll follow them up later today - it's currently 0530 here.

GT startup - yes, definitely type E: purple sheath, marked as EX. Damned stuff.


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[roydm]

Type E, I had to look that up as I have never seen it. I think it unlikely you will find extension cable I suggest you either use single pairs or find some terminal style T/C to 4-20 mA converters and put them in local J boxes, that way you can use regular multi pair back to control system.
Good Luck
Roy

 

[btrueblood]

Scotty, I haven't ordered type E before, but Nanmac was darn quick with long spools of type K. Pretty sure they stock the multistrand wire.