Page 178 - IS-Rayfast Catalogue - Issue 9, 2017

Screening Braid
LWB INSTALITE ®
Super light, Tin or Nickel plated Copper
Electromagnetic Screening Braid

1 INSTALITE offers less weight than in a familiar
metal braid technology. Offering up to 50%
weight savings over traditional copper braids,
2 INSTALITE lightweight braid has excellent
electrical shielding performance over a wide
frequency range. Made from high performance
3 nickel plated high strength copper alloy.
Since INSTALITE braid uses well established
4 metal braiding, the transition from traditional
braids to INSTALITE is easy. The product
can be terminated with standard tooling and RoHS
5 installation procedures for existing backshells compliant
and band straps, making it easy to introduce it
into current applications.
6 Up to 50% Lighter
Operating Temperature
Minimum 85% Optical
• LWB 101 -65ºC to +150ºC Tin plated
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• LWB 103 -65ºC to +200ºC Nickel plated Coverage
TM
8 InstaLite 101 and 103 Lightweight Tubular Braid
Optical Cable Pack Weight
Former Ø Resistance
9 Part No. Coverage Bundle Size Nom.
mm Min. Nom. ohms/km Min.mm Max.mm m kg/km
10 LWB-10X-3.0 3.0 (±0.13) 90.0 % 93.7 % 28.0 3.0 4.5 100 8.5
LWB-10X-6.0 6.0 (±0.25) 90.0 % 91.3 % 18.0 4.5 8.0 100 15.5
LWB-10X-10.0 10.0 (±0.25) 90.0 % 96.4 % 9.0 8.0 15.0 100 28.0
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LWB-10X-20.0 20.0 (±0.25) 85.0 % 86.0 % 7.0 15.0 25.0 50 45.0
Weight excludes that of the former
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Up to 50% lighter than
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traditional copper braid
Environmental Performance
Optical Coverage Min. 85% up Salt spray: ASTM B117
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to Max. 96% Flex endurance: 1000 cycles min., SAE AS4373
method 704 (180º bend)
15 Better low-frequency
performance than plated fibres Comparison LWB-103 vs RAY-103
Tensile strength [N/mm ] 758 220
2
16 or micro-filaments
Break strength [N] 15.2 11.1
INSTALITE-103-10 passes DC Resistance [mΩ/m] 9.0 3.5
17 Weight [kg/km] 28* 41*
21kA waveform 5B lightning
Optical coverage [%] 90 93
protection
18 Figures for braid with nominal diameter of 10.0mm
* Denotes nominal weight

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