Tuesday, January 25, 2011

Cable derating factor

Assalamualaikum...

My first post :) . How to determine cable derating factor?  We can determine it from cable datasheet. Usually, we will go for the worse case scenario which is K= 0.7. For 0.7, we assume in a cable tray, we will have more than 10 cables in it.


Cable in cable tray, the black cable is the newly installed cable and the white one are the existing cables which already coated