Ribbon Cable and High Voltages

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What voltage do you intend to run through the cable?

You don't actually say what voltage you're designing for.

If you build a product, and you get it all UL tested, and it burns someone's house down, then when things go to court the fact that it uses cabling with higher-than-rated voltage on it will outweigh the fact that it happened to pass UL testing.

Why don't you want to use cabling that's rated for your use?

Hi,

Datasheets are as follows

Digikey Link:

Datasheet:

jess

The voltages that I am using this cable for are in micro to millivolts range. I do not know how much voltage UL will test this cable for.

jess

Place "" around your links and they will remain intact.

Those old multi-colored, twisted pair type ribbon cables IBM and folks made used higher dielectric insulation. Some ScSI cables were even cloth overwrapped. Some really nice stuff was around back then. still is, but it isn't cheap.

but some is, actually.

They won't disassemble the product and test the ribbon cables. They probably will look at the schematic and see if there might be a fire or safety hazard, which there won't be in your case.

I've taken several products through UL/CE lately, with ribbon cable jumpers all over the place. Some carry power between boards, and signals in the 40 volt range. Not a peep.

If it's all internal, why are you worrying?

The ribbon cable will not be internal. One end will be connected to the printed ciruit board and the other end will be outside the box, hanging free. The part of the ribbon cable inside the box will have following connector on it

Digikey part number: S9165-ND

And the part that stays outside will have following connector on it Digikey part number : A32569-ND

jess

If its less than 40v (I think) and 60W then they are not concerned with it.

Cheers

What does this have to do with high voltage, per your original posting?

Where is the voltage you are worried about? You're allowed 42V in energy-limited circuits.

Does this thing plug into the wall, even?

RL

That's superstition.

I leave them off, and it makes not difference.

Formatting aside the links don't work, that's just the way digikey rolls.