Nice soft EHU cable recommendations. (1 Viewer)

[adonisito]

I have 2 x 20m cables, which I plug together if we are a long way from hook up, one coils easily and is soft but has no brand on it. The other is impossibly stiff, especially in Winter. Could you lot recommend me a nice soft cable with I can coil easily instead of fighting with coils, twists etc.?

Thanks

 

[laneside]

Love to know the answer, we have a short one that is brilliant and a long one more akin to a coiled spring.

 

[Abacist]

Ours is soft and pliable in the warm and hard and more rigid in the winter!

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[wiljoy]

I bought some very flexible cable last year from my LOCAL DIY shop. It's blue and the jobsworth wardens at the CC sites have nagged me a few times about the colour . According to them it's recommended that orange is used to stand out more. Last time they commented I suggested I was getting better electric with blue cable . The warden just walked away to pick on some other mug.

 

[rangi]

Are you coiling it correctly? I watched a video that someone had posted ages ago now, The fella doing it , yes he succeeded, but what an effort.
When coiling, 1st lay the Cable out straight, if cable is wet, covered in grass, or just plain dirty, hold a cloth around the cable.
Left handed? hold the end of the cable in your left hand, R/H? the opposite
Holding cable end tight in one hand and loose in the other, spread you arms, grip the loose end and forming a loop bring the cable to meet the other hand, transfer looped cable to the other hand, slide hand out along cable till both arms are stretched again, repeat as before, and so on until cable is fully coiled. It helps if you can get a "swinging" motion on the coils end, this aids you in pulling the cable through the loose hand.

 

[John745]

"Arctic" cable will sort your problem i.e.

https://www.tlc-direct.co.uk/Main_Index/Cable_Index/Flex_Artic_Yellow_or_Blue/index.html

It comes in blue or yellow and is designed for very cold temps and it does flex easily, not cheap but quality.

There are other suppliers on ebay.

Good hunting.

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[Khizzie]

I bought some very flexible cable last year from my LOCAL DIY shop. It's blue and the jobsworth wardens at the CC sites have nagged me a few times about the colour . According to them it's recommended that orange is used to stand out more. Last time they commented I suggested I was getting better electric with blue cable . The warden just walked away to pick on some other mug.

Haha .what pillock employed them as wardens never heard that orange was the recommended colour i have always used the blue cable because it is designed to be more flexible in the colder weather .god save us from jobsworths .

 

[tonyidle]

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[syldale]

"Arctic" cable will sort your problem i.e.

https://www.tlc-direct.co.uk/Main_Index/Cable_Index/Flex_Artic_Yellow_or_Blue/index.html

It comes in blue or yellow and is designed for very cold temps and it does flex easily, not cheap but quality.

There are other suppliers on ebay.

Good hunting.

hi just bought the blue arctic 2 weeks ago superb for this time of the year rapped up nice as if it was summer bought the drum & bag as well

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[Madcaravanner]

Haha .what pillock employed them as wardens never heard that orange was the recommended colour i have always used the blue cable because it is designed to be more flexible in the colder weather .god save us from jobsworths .

Orange has always been the "recommended" colour but you can use what ever colour cable you wish as long as it meets the required Euro standard CEE17

Arctic Cable fits the standard as long as it has the correct plug and socket on it

 

[Steve]

my vote goes to 'artic' cable as well. The norm. would be 230v blue & 110v yellow but what ever you have will be great. just have the right connectors on the ends.

 

[Kevan]

my vote goes to 'artic' cable as well. The norm. would be 230v blue & 110v yellow but what ever you have will be great. just have the right connectors on the ends.

Ditto

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[Khizzie]

Orange has always been the "recommended" colour but you can use what ever colour cable you wish as long as it meets the required Euro standard CEE17

Arctic Cable fits the standard as long as it has the correct plug and socket on it

Must be a caravan club recommendation then as camping and caravan club don't seem to have made a similar recommended colour that i can see anywhere in their rules etc.

 

[stcyr]

The object being 'visibility' surely commonsense would indicate that any colour except green or mud/sand/gravel-colour would do the job?

 

[Khizzie]

The object being 'visibility' surely commonsense would indicate that any colour except green or mud/sand/gravel-colour would do the job?

Of course we could really go over the top and have led flashing led strips fitted .hahahaha. Bet that would not meet approval with jobsworths .

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[bertiebasset]

I have posted this before,, and being left handed I find coiling cable puts in a kink so I use "elephant ears" as instructed when sailing. Hold just behind plug/socket in one hand and hold other arm back with cable,,lay cable over hand forward, then backward, continue until cable ends and you should have loops in front and behind hand. I use small ball bungee at hand position and lonnger ball bungee near loop ends. When using just pull and you will never get a tangled cable.

 

[adonisito]

Ok brilliant. Arctic cable it is, it comes in 3 widths, 1.5mm, 2.5mm and 4mm. Which is best ? I'm thinking 2.5mm.

 

[JeanLuc]

Yes, 2.5 mm² is the correct size for a 25 metre EHU cable.

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[Littlewheels]

I've got the lot!!! A 25m Lemon one,it used to be Orange but the Sun bleached it. A 10m Spanish White one, a 15m UK Blue one and a 25m French Black one.

They've all arrived for one reason or another as I needed them and they all carry the correct rated marks.

 

[SomeoneElse]

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[Linda and Steph]

Arctic cable is the way to go.

As for coiling it up; 40+ years in theatre coiling lighting & sound cables and what @rangitira says is correct. Never wrap it tightly around your elbow because it introduces false loops that will lead to kinks. Loosely coiling the cable will allow it to form natural loops all wing it to lay flat.

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[Silver-Fox]

Spend over 20 years in the building trade you soon learn how to gather you're cables up

Just as an addition, with my site leads I also wrap the lose end around the large loop in the middle then pull a loop of the lose end through the large loop and put the lose end through said loop.

This keeps the cable all together so it can't unravel any one who has sheeted lorries will know what I'm trying to explain as its how most used to sort their ropes out.