Configuration guidelines | Selecting the cable carrier
Selecting the cable protection: open or closed cable carrier? The selection of the suitable cable carriers can be further limited with the question whether the guided cables require Operating conditions
Open cable carriers
Covered cable carriers
additional protection (e.g. against foreign bodies) and whether a cable carrier with a cover system is practical. The following table is a simple guideline; the exact choice should be determined after detailed examination of the specific application. In many cases, closed cable carriers are also used to hide the cables for visual reasons. For very large accumulations of fine contamination (e.g. dust or sand), especially in combination with moisture, we advise against using the cover systems. This affects the function of the overlapping covers substantially. Cover systems are available for steel and plastic cable carriers.
Coarse contamination (e.g. chips, metal parts, glass splinters)
•
+
+*
Hot chips/metal spatter
–
Visual protection (hiding the cables)
–
+
Very high incidence of fine contamination (e.g. sand, dust, scale) Very fine contamination and moisture (e.g. moist dust)
•/+ –
•/+ –
+ very suitable • suitable – not suitable
* Also possible as steel band cover, see page 752 Special materials for covers on plastic cable carriers possible
Example: Cover system with chips
Negative example: Cover system with high dust accumulation
According to the specification plastic/steel and open/closed, you can select the suitable cable carriers according to the following diagram in the respective catalog chapter:
KABELSCHLEPP ® cable carriers
Plastic cable carriers
Steel cable carriers
BASIC-LINE Plus For extremely fast cable instal- lation from page 188
VARIO-LINE Cable carriers with variable widths from page 240
3D-LINE Cable carrier for multi-dimension- al applications from page 550
STEEL-LINE Cable carrier for extreme applications from page 562
BASIC-LINE Cable carrier with fixed widths from page 102
TUBES-PLASTIC Covered plastic cable carriers from page 464
TUBES-STEEL Covered steel cable carriers from page 660
Open design
Closed design
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