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To assist the customer in comprehensively discussing his needs with our factory engineering staff, we offer a brief guide to the major design options and tradeoffs available. A designers check list for specifying cable is offered elsewhere in this section. Not all are aware that for a given number of wires, several different geometry’s maybe used to form the wires into a helical cable bundle. Any of them may be justified, depending on cost, intended use and performance, or limitations of the manufacturers’ equipment. National Wire & Cable Corp. has perhaps the widest and most versatile selection of modern cable-making equipment in the custom cable industry. We welcome your knotty design problems. Our 40 years of experience in wire & cable field are at your disposal.  \nConductor Layup Geometry Options  \nA. Layer Upon layer  \nWhen all conductors have equal diameters they can be cabled in simple layers around a suitable core or central wire. Theoretically, every layer will contain 6 more wires than the preceding inner layer. This can be shown with a few round disks or coins. In practice this is not always true. Tolerances of insulation diameters enter the picture. Further, the conductors spiral in a helical path when formed into cable, and thus occupy an elliptically-shaped area around the circumference of the core. Typically, the eccentricity of the ellipse is about 5% . Thus about 19 conductors may fit, where 20 should if they were assumed to occupy a circular cross-section.  \nB. Subcabeling  \nFor some constructions small groups of wires are helically cabled into subcables, which are then helically cabled to form the finished bundle. They may take these forms due to the end use requirements, (i.e.: where the design calls for twisted pairs, trios, etc. ) or may do so mainly for the convenience of the lay-up of the required number of wires in an available site within the cable cross-section. Advantages of this method are improved flexibility of the cable, possible convenience in the intended end-use for the cable and the wide selection of geometry’s it offers the designer. Disadvantages compared to the layer-on layer method are usually increased diameter and cost. Where there are hundreds of conductors in a cable, this method is often used to permit cabling on relatively small cabling machines.  \nC. Filling Interstices  \nWhen a cable contains a wide mixture of wire diameters, the larger wire sizes or subcables may be cable-formed so as to deliberately leave interstices large enough for the smaller wires to lie within tangent to two adjacent large wires, but not in contact with the inner layer or core.  \nD. Use of Fillers  \nWhere a layer requires more wires than are available to properly fill all positions in that layer, round fillers are used to occupy the otherwise vacant sites. Their use ensures a round shape and provides adequate support for the outer layers of the construction. These may be spare wires, or of plastic rod, jute, or twisted yarns or tapes. 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