Shielded Silicone Rubber Cable: YGCP Series

Environments that corrode standard cable jackets in months. Temperature swings that embrittle insulation without warning. This is the kind of failure that doesn’t announce itself until a signal drops or a safety circuit opens. The YGCP cable eliminates that risk at the material level. Silicone rubber jacketing over a shielded core means one less variable in high-temperature, high-interference installations. Reduced maintenance windows. Consistent signal integrity.

Conductor Shielding That Suppresses Electrical Noise

[Feature]: Tinned copper braid shielding with 85% minimum optical coverage.
These are not low-coverage spiral wraps that leave gaps in the EMI barrier. The braid geometry dissipates electromagnetic interference across a broad frequency spectrum. As a result, variable frequency drive (VFD) feedback loops and sensitive transducer signals arrive intact. No ghost readings. No drive faults triggered by coupled noise.

[Feature]: Thermoset silicone rubber jacket vulcanized directly over the shield separator.
Unlike thermoplastic jackets that soften and thin out under load, this jacket maintains its dielectric strength and physical dimensions at continuous conductor temperatures up to 180°C. The bond between the jacket and the shield layer prevents delamination during tight-radius routing. That eliminates a common failure mode where jackets pull back from connectors in moving-flex applications.

Mechanical Durability Without Compromising Flexibility

[Feature]: High strand-count tinned copper conductors, Class 5 or 6 flexible stranding per IEC 60228.
Fine stranding distributes bending stress across a greater number of individual wires. Fewer fracturing events during the installation pull or over millions of flex cycles inside a cable track. This matters specifically for packaging machines, robotic end-of-arm tooling, and any panel door interface that gets daily movement. Downtime from a broken conductor inside a continuous-flex silicone cable can run into hours of diagnostic work before the repair even starts.

[Feature]: Tear-resistant insulation system engineered for manual stripping without nicking inner layers.
Field engineers will recognize the problem: silicone grips blades aggressively. The YGCP series uses a controlled-fill cross-section that allows a clean strip window when using standard rotary stripping tools. Fewer scrapped terminations. Faster panel build times.

Technical Specifications & Dimensions

The table below represents standard catalogue specifications. Custom core counts, metric wire sizes, and jacket colours are available upon request.

Nominal cross-sections range from 0.25 mm² to 50 mm². Multi-core configurations up to 36 cores are manufactured as standard. Contact our engineering team for bundled construction drawings.

Where YGCP Cables Resolve Recurring Failures

• Steel and non-ferrous metal processing. Overhead cranes and ladle transfer cars expose wiring to radiant heat and metallic dust. Standard PVC jackets harden within weeks. Silicone rubber maintains elasticity, and the shield prevents VFD-driven hoist motors from coupling noise into load cell feedback circuits.
• Industrial glass and ceramics kilns. Burner ignition leads and flame sensor wiring run inside conduit at ambient temperatures exceeding 120°C. The shielded twisted-pair variant of YGCP preserves the microamp flame rectification signal that unscreened cable would lose to ground.
• Pharmaceutical and cleanroom processing equipment. Washdown-tolerant cable is a requirement. Silicone’s resistance to hydrogen peroxide vapor and CIP chemical splash, combined with braid shielding for sensitive temperature probe circuits, keeps batch records clean of noise-induced anomalies.
• Marine auxiliary systems. Engine room ambient temperatures combined with salt-laden humidity accelerate dissimilar-metal corrosion on unshielded copper. Tinned conductors inside a sealed silicone jacket, with tinned braid, give a documented extension of service intervals on generator set monitoring looms.
• Test and instrumentation racks. Multi-channel YGCP cables replace discrete coaxial runs inside burn-in chambers where the entire loom must survive repeated chamber door flexing without impedance shifts.

International Compliance & QA Standards

Each production batch is accompanied by a 3.1 material certificate per EN 10204, unless a 3.2 inspection certificate is specified at order stage. The following benchmarks apply:

• ✅ IEC 60228 – Conductors of insulated cables
• ✅ IEC 60332-1-2 – Flame retardance for single cable
• ✅ EN 50525-2-41 – Rubber insulated cables, silicone types
• ✅ RoHS 2011/65/EU and amendment (EU) 2015/863 – Material compliance
• ✅ CE marking per Low Voltage Directive 2014/35/EU
• ✅ ISO 9001:2015 – Factory quality management system
• ✅ UL 758 / UL 1581 – Available upon request with AWM style marking

Additional testing against customer-specific weld slag or oil resistance standards can be arranged through our in-house lab. Typical flame test video and test data file are dispatched alongside the sample shipment.

FAQ

The installation will run through a cable track with 2-meter travel at 80 cycles per minute. How do I confirm the bend radius won’t destroy the shield over 2 million cycles?
This is the right question to ask before specifying, not after commissioning. The flexing bend radius we place on the datasheet—10 times the outer diameter—is the conservative rating for a 5-million-cycle life. For a 2-million-cycle target at high acceleration, we need your track geometry. We run a dynamic flex test on a representative sample using your radius and travel speed, then dissect the shield for strand break percentage. You receive test micrographs alongside the cable quote.

Can you supply the cable with a continuous, oil-resistant jacket that still meets Class 1E flame requirements?
Yes, but the trade-off is flexibility. Pure silicone jackets meet the flame requirement naturally but can swell with prolonged immersion in specific hydraulic fluids. We compound a fluorinated silicone variant that sacrifices roughly 15% elongation-at-break in exchange for strong resistance to mineral oils and synthetic esters. We’d recommend this variant for steel mill applications with incidental fluid exposure.

What’s your standard lead time for 1000 meters of 12-core, 1.5 mm² shielded YGCP with numbered cores?
Four weeks from drawing approval to ex-works for catalogue configurations. Custom colour-coding or non-stock shielding constructions typically add 10 working days. If your schedule is compressed, we hold semi-finished stranded core stock that can shorten the lead time to 12 working days for many sizes. Mention your required-by date on the RFQ; we’ve pulled in deliveries for commissioning deadlines before.

Get a Specification That Fits the Job

A generic datasheet won’t tell you whether the cable holds up under your particular EMI environment or flexing profile. Send us three pieces of information and we’ll return a specification proposal within one working day.

Email your requirements:
– Core count, nominal cross-section, and voltage rating
– Worst-case ambient temperature and exposure conditions
– Shield coverage or signal type you need to protect

Contact our application engineering desk at [insert email] or call [insert phone number] to discuss your project directly. Sample lengths are supplied for type testing.