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For your convenience, request a quote with our Online Product Specification Order Form, also available for download/print in PDF format. Our dedicated sales team is available to help you through the order or inquiry process – so contact us with your questions about product or process. To ensure the most accurate quote possible, please provide as much of the following information when placing an order or making an inquiry:

Overall length from the face of the plug to end of the longest conductor

• AWG size & number of conductors
• Color & UL type designation
• Plug type
• Appliance end finish: – Molded connector (specify by category number) – Power supply cords (describe end processing from Standard Factory Tolerance chart below)
• Strain Relief: – Specify by category number – Indicate location as center-line to end of longest conductor
• Put-up: – Hanked-self-secured (specify body and free-end lengths) – Unhanked-tied in bundles.
• Coiled – (specify critical diameter and free-end lengths) – Required approvals (UL and/or CSA)

Metric to Standard Standard to Metric
25.4 mm per inch
305 mm per foot
.305 M per foot
1.61 KM per mile

Standard to Metric
.03937 inches per mm
39.37 inches per meter
3.28 feet per meter
.622 miles per KM

Glossary of Wire Type Terminology
Flat Wire: SPT: Stranded, Parallel, Thermoplastic
This is always followed by a -1, -2 or -3, signifying insulation thickness for different applications.
HPN: Heater, Parallel, Neoprene
Required for heater-type application, such as irons, toasters, etc.
NOTE: Electri-Cord can run some 20 AWG, but mostly we run 18, 16 and 14 AWG, 2 or 3 conductors.
P = Parallel Wire (Flat).
Jacketed Wire:

S = Stranded (or Service Wire)
J = Junior Service (300 Volt). If no “J” is in the wire type, then it is a hard service (600 Volt).
T = Thermoplastic. If no “T” is in the wire type, then it has a rubber jacket.
O = Oil-Resistant Compound
W = Weather-Resistant Compound
V = Vacuum (as in vacuum cleaner). This is a small O.D. jacketed wire, very flexible and initially used for vacuum cleaners but now used on many different types of products. Available only in 18 AWG.

Examples:
SV = Stranded Vacuum Rubber Jacketed (NO “T”)
SJT = Stranded Junior Thermoplastic
SJTOW = Stranded Junior Thermoplastic, Oil and Weather resistant for UL and CSA.

Miscellaneous requirements:
S.P. = Surface Printed
N.M. = Non-Migratory compound to prevent the wire color from bleeding under unusual circumstances.
VW-1 = Vertical Flame test (formerly FR-1)
IEC, ICC = International Color Code on the inner conductors (Blue, Brown, Green w/Yellow Stripe)
N.A. = North American Color Code on the inner conductors (Black, White, Green)
41/34 = Stranding specification format (41 strands of 34 AWG wire for each inner conductor)
T.C. = Tinned Copper inner conductors|
RIBBED = Outer jacket is striated with ribs
R/S or W/S = Red or White Stripe for visual polarity inspection on Flat wire

Temperature Ratings:
60°C = Standard rating (except HPN =90°C)
105°C = Electri-Cord’s alternate rating
(we normally don’t stock 75°, 90°C)

Inner Conductor Colors

Metric Conversion Chart:

We are able to cross-reference several of our other competitor’s part numbers as well. If the only description you have is someone else’s part number, the Electri-Cord problem solvers will be able to quote you immediately with our best price and delivery.

Note: Above dimensions are nominal and are within UL and CSA tolerances. If wire size or O.D. is critical to your application, please contact us for special arrangements.

NEED TO CREATE TABLE BASED ON EXISTING INFORMATION

NEED TO CREATE TABLE BASED ON EXISTING INFORMATION