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Most industrial wire is made up of multiple wire strands, called 'base strands', rather than being made of a solid piece of metal. Multiple strands make the wire more flexible, allowing it to bend and flex more easily than solid metal. The finer the base strand, the more flexible the wire. As shown here, standard 24 AWG wire has 7 base strands, 'flexible' wire has 19 base strands, while Cicoil High-Flex wire has 66 base strands. All Cicoil wire has base stranding of 40 AWG minimum, versus 36 AWG and larger in other 'flexible' wires. This makes Cicoil wire extremely flexible, as wires with smaller base stranding will have a much smaller bend radius than wires with larger stranding. In addition, finer stranded wire has significantly longer life in flexing applications, as bending stresses are distributed across many more wires strands, thereby dissipating the strain on the overall wire conductor.

PTM Published on: 2012-10-10