Cable source

[Ken Moore]

Looking for a source for the following cable, need several 1000 ft. rolls. 6 conductor 18 ga., shielded, rated for cable tray service. The six conductor colors need to be: blue green red orange black white Thanks, Ken

[paulengr]

I don't know how goofy (nonstandard) that is but among others, TPC and Alpha will sell you cable custom-made to whatever you want in terms of colors, wire combinations, etc. What you didn't specify is stranded or solid, PUR, THHN, or more exotic jackets, etc. You also didn't specify if that's an overall shield, shielded pairs, or individually shielded, and whether or not there's any twist desired. Anyways, if it's just shielded multiconductor signalling wire, TPC's Trex-Onics #61406 has the exact color coding you listed. It's meant for cable track type applications so it has an obscene number of strands for flexibility. I'm not positive but I believe also Belden sells a 6 conductor fire alarm grade cable with the same color coding scheme. We use this extensively because of the TPE jacket (much better than 140 F limitations of PVC). If you don't routinely burn everything, you may not need that.

[Ken Moore]

I'll have to check this out, sounds promising.

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get ready to grab your ankles if you buy it from TPC :)