Material index
Every wire and cable family we review in Georgia
Fifty-eight pages, grouped the way material is actually sorted: the utility and high-voltage families first, then plant, contractor and demolition cable, then the circumstances that put it on the market.
- 58 families
- Utility to 500 kV
- Mixed lots reviewed
01Utility and high voltage
Overhead, substation and shielded cable
Twenty-seven pages covering bare conductor, station bus and grounding, shielded cable from 5 kV to 500 kV, PILC and HPFF, and the utility surplus and storm salvage that put it on the market.
- Transmission conductorBare overhead conductor from 69 kV through 500 kV lines
- ACSR conductorAluminium conductor steel reinforced, distribution to transmission
- AAAC and ACAR conductorAll-aluminium alloy and aluminium conductor alloy reinforced
- OPGW and ADSSOptical ground wire and all-dielectric self-supporting fibre
- Substation bus wireBus, jumper, strain bus and station post conductor
- Grounding grid conductorBare copper, copperweld and ground grid wire
- Static and guy wireShield wire, overhead ground wire, guy strand and anchor rod
- Distribution conductorPrimary and secondary overhead distribution conductor
- Covered and spacer cableTree wire, covered conductor and aerial spacer cable
- 69 kV cableSubtransmission cable and 69 kV shielded power cable
- 115 kV cableHigh-voltage shielded cable for 115 kV substation and feeder work
- 230 kV cable230 kV underground and substation cable
- 345 kV cable345 kV cable, terminations and accessory lots
- 500 kV cable500 kV cable and EHV accessory packages
- PILC cablePaper-insulated lead-covered cable, in service or abandoned
- HPFF pipe-type cableHigh-pressure fluid-filled pipe-type cable systems
- Medium voltage cable5 kV to 35 kV shielded power cable
- Switchgear and padmount cableCable released with switchgear, padmounts and reclosers
- Riser and lead cableSubstation riser, transformer lead and jumper cable
- Cable in conduitCIC and pre-assembled conduit cable lots
- Submarine cableSubaqueous and river-crossing cable
- Utility surplusReleased stock, obsolete standards and cancelled orders
- Reconductor and removed conductorConductor pulled during reconductor and upgrade work
- Storm-damage conductorSalvaged conductor, downed line and storm stock
- Decommissioned substationBus, cable, ground grid and steel from retired stations
- Mill shutdown surplusCable and conductor released by a mill or plant shutdown
- Transformer lead cableLead cable, bus bar and connections released with transformers
02Plant and contractor
Building wire, industrial cable and situations
Thirty-one pages: the wire most lots are actually made of, and the circumstances — partial reels, cancellations, liquidations, demolition — that decide how it is reviewed.
- THHN and THWN wire600 V nylon-jacketed building wire
- XHHW and XHHW-2 wireCross-linked polyethylene building wire
- MC cableMetal-clad and HCF armoured cable
- AC cableArmoured cable with a bonded aluminium ground
- SER and SEU cableService entrance cable, 600 V
- NM-B cableNon-metallic sheathed cable
- URD cableUnderground residential distribution cable
- USE-2 cableUnderground service entrance cable
- Tray cableTC and TC-ER, 600 V to 2 kV
- Welding cableFlexible single-conductor lead cable
- SOOW cordPortable rubber cord, 600 V
- Submersible pump cableWell and pump drop cable
- Bare copperBare, tinned and stranded copper conductor
- Control cableMulti-conductor control cable, 600 V
- Instrumentation cableMulti-pair instrument and thermocouple cable
- VFD cableVariable-frequency drive cable with symetrical grounds
- Feeder cableLarge-conductor power feeder
- Aluminium wireAluminium building, feeder and service wire
- Copper wireCopper building wire, feeder and bus
- Solar PV cablePV wire, DC feeder and tracker cable
- Data centre cableCampus feeder, busway and equipment cable
- Fiber optic cableOutside plant and intra-building fibre
- Fire alarm cableFPLR and FPLP fire alarm cable
- High-temperature cableSilicone, fibreglass and MG cable
- Partial reelsPart reels with usable remaining length
- Cancelled project cableCable bought for work that never started
- Plant liquidation cableCable released in a plant liquidation
- Demolition cableCable recovered during demolition
- Warehouse overstockExcess stock and dead inventory
- Contractor leftoversLeftover reels from completed jobs
- Mixed lotsUnsorted lots of mixed cable and conductor
Two facts identify most lots
The printed legend and the reel tag. Everything else is a question we can ask.