Bonded STALPETH Cable is a foam skin insulated, single jacket, armored air core design intended for use in ducts to provide more efficient duct utilization than standard PIC designs.

Features:
• Tightly controlled individual conductor dimensions
• Specially designed pair twist lays
• Core wrap
• Aluminum tape shield
• Steel tape armor bonded to outer jacket
• Polyethylene jacket

Benefits:
• Limits resistance unbalance of paired conductors
• Minimizes crosstalk and meets the capacitance unbalance requirements
• Protects the core and helps provide core-to-shield dielectric strength
• Assures good electrical contact with non-piercing bonding clamps
• Protects the core from mechanical damage and reduces the possibility of tape buckling during installation, ingress of water to the aluminum shield and of water along the cable between the armor and outer jacket
• Provides a tough, flexible, protective covering that withstands exposure to sunlight, atmospheric temperatures, ground chemicals and stresses expected in standard installations

Specifications:
Conductor
• Solid annealed copper

Insulation
• Conductors are dual insulated with an inner layer of foamed, natural polyolefin covered by an outer layer of solid, colored polyolefin; conductor insulation is color coded in accordance with industry standard

≥ 50-Pair Core
• Multiples of 25-pair groups are assembled to form the final cable core; each group is identified by color coded non-hygroscopic binders; for 1,200-pair and larger, the color code is Mirror Image design

Core Wrap
• Non-hygroscopic dielectric material

Shield
• Corrugated bare 8 mil aluminum tape applied longitudinally over the core wrap

Armor
• Corrugated, copolymer coated, 6 mil steel tape applied over the aluminum shield and bonded to the outer jacket

Jacket
• Black polyethylene

Jacket Marking
• Manufacturer’s identification, pair count, AWG, product identification and a telephone handset printed at 2 foot intervals; sequential footage markings are printed at alternate 2 foot intervals

Standards Compliance
• Telcordia® GR-421-CORE Issue 2
• RoHS-compliant

Applications:
• Congested underground duct systems