Solid Copper Cable VS Copper Coated Cable

Would you buy your future wife a gold coated wedding ring? Not if you value your future relationship!Why jeopardise the future relationship with your customer by installing inferior CCTV cable with a copper coated core (CCA) instead of a solid core like anti-hum cables. Copper is close behind gold & silver in terms of conductivity and resistance to corrosion but these are both prohibitively expensive in the manufacture of cable.

Other reasons to choose a CCTV cable with  a solid copper core include:  Copper has the highest conductivity of commercial metals. Copper has excellent resistant to corrosion and even when it does oxidise, its coating maintains conductivity. Copper has good mechanical properties at low to high operating temperatures and so remains flexible.  Copper is easy to join & solder.  It is readily available as a natural resource and easily recycled & finally...  Copper is 65% more conductive than aluminiumIn summary to get a similar current rating from both copper and aluminium cables, the aluminium one would have to be much bigger in diameter and therefore heavier, less flexible and harder to join. It would also inevitably end up being more costly too.
Source: CDA Pub 122 – 1998

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