6mm Brown/ Grey DC cable

[infinity]

Where is the best place to buy brown/ Grey DC cable? 6mm need about 400M of each

 

[Besoeker]

Where is the best place to buy brown/ Grey DC cable? 6mm need about 400M of each

I suppose any good cable stockist. If you want, I can give you contact details for the one we use for tri-rated.

But what's the significance of it being DC? As far as I can recall we have not used any cable specifically rated for DC.

 

[BruceB]

segen do it in black if you are willing to sleeve the ends

 

[a1colly]

Sleeve the ends my current price from my wholesaler is 44p a meter on a 500m drum

 

[infinity]

We want to use brown grey as it looks nicer IMO especially on the tray work just can't seem to find it

 

[a1colly]

Last place I had brown from was Tlc but never had any luck with grey. I've spoken to prysmian recently regarding colour variations in all sizes of dc solar cable up to 35mm but they won't do for less than 50,000m drums

 

[telectrix]

if this is LV on tray, it needs sheathed cable anyway. would help if you said what it was to be used for.

 

[BruceB]

google for brown 6mm solar cable
Clynder 6mm Solaflex 100m Brown - U Solar Shop

 

[Gavin A]

if this is LV on tray, it needs sheathed cable anyway. would help if you said what it was to be used for.

it's in the solar forum, so chances are it'd be for running the DC down from the panels in singles using insulated and sheathed (more often referred to rightly or wrongly as double insulated) 6mm2 cable with UV resistance and high temperature ratings.... or he could just abbreviate that to dc cable and any solar installers would know what he meant.


to the OP, nope sorry, we just use black and mark up the ends.

 

[ian.settle1]

Check the regs think the colours for DC are specified in there

 

[shanky887614]

Check the regs think the colours for DC are specified in there

yup, red and black

edit my mistake.

i didnt realise then in our panels should really be brown and blue.

the cable we use doesnt come in that colour so ah well

 

[infinity]

nope, brown and Grey! Sorry yes DC cable, i had assumed being in solar forum you would know, are you not mind readers??

 

[SibertSolar]

I think we should have some Dan, call David in the office

 

[infinity]

Thanks, David's calling me tomorrow once he's had a look.

 

[SibertSolar]

Ok, good

 

[Gavin A]

I'm coming round to the idea of actually using different coloured cables now, on big jobs it'd save a lot of time marking up, and we tend to run both cables at a time anyway.

 

[infinity]

We use coloured on all domestic installs looks so much better!
Commercial will be the same and easily identifiable

 

[SibertSolar]

We stock 4mm2 in brown and grey but happy to bring some 6mm2 in if there's an interest. Starting to see more and more installers switching over from black, in compliance with colours listed under BS 7671 for DC, as pointed to in the 3rd edition PV guide. Marking up/labelling works too but there's no price difference compared to black

 

[Gavin A]

we've stuck with black and marking up on the 'why take 2 heavy reels of cable up onto the roof when you can just take one' principle.

 

[SibertSolar]

Fair point!