WIRE & CABLE REFERENCE STANDARDS
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STANDARD
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DESCRIPTION
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| ASTM B 3 | Standard specification for soft or annealed copper wire |
| ASTM B 8 | Standard specification for concentri-lay stranded copper conductors, hard, medium-hard or soft |
| ASTM B 33 | Standard specification for tinned soft or annealed coppwer wire for electrical purposes |
| ASTM B 172 | Standard specification for rope-lay stranded copper conductors having bunch-stranded members, for electrical conductors |
| ASTM B 173 | Standard specification for rope-lay-stranded copper conductors having concentric-stranded members, for elctrical conductors |
| ASTM B 174 | Standard specification for bunch-stranded copper conductors for electrical conductors |
| ASTM B 298 | Standard specification for silver-coated soft or annealed copper wire |
| CAN/CSA C22.2 No. 49 | Standard for flexible cords and cables |
| CAN/CSA C22.2 No. 51 | Standard for armored cable |
| CAN/CSA C22.2 No. 96 | Standard for portable power cable |
| CAN/CSA C22.2 No. 210.2 | Standard for appliance wiring material products |
| CAN/CSA C22.2 No. 214 | Standard for communications cables |
| CAN/CSA C22.2 No. 239 | Standard for control & instrumentation cables |
| CSA C22.2: No. 0.3 | Standard for test methods for elctrical wires and cables |
| CSA C22.2 No. 38 | Standard for thermoset insulated wires and cables |
| CSA C22.2 No. 75 | Standard for thermoplastic-insulated wires and cables |
| CSA C22.2 No. 127 | Standard for equipment wires |
| CSA C22.2 No. 208 | Standard for fire alarm and signal cable |
| CSA C22.2 No. 222 | Standard for type FCC under-carpet wiring system |
| CSA C22.2 No. 230 | Standard for tray cable |
| EIA/TIA-568 | Commercial building telecommunications wiring standard |
| EIA/TIA-569 | Commercial building standard for telecommunications pathways and spaces |
| EIA/TIA TSB-36 | Additional cable specifications for unshielded twisted pair cables |
| EIA/TIA TSB-40 | Additional transmission specifications for unshielded twisted pair connecting hardware |
| IEEE 383 | IEEE standard for type test of class 1E electrical cables, field splices and connections for nuclear power generating stations |
| IEEE 802.3 | IEEE standard for information processing systems - local and metropolitan area netwroks - part 3: carrier sense multiple access with collision detection (CSMA/CD) access method and physical layer specifications (ISO/IEC) (ANSI/IEEE St. 802.3) |
| IEEE 802.5 | IEEE standard for information technology - local and metropolitan area networks - part 5 token ring access method and physical layer specifications (ISO/IEC) (ANSI/IEEE Std. 802.5) |
| IEEE 1202 | IEEE standard for flame testing of cables for use in cable tray in industrial and commercial occupancies |
| NFPA 70 | National electrical code |
| NFPA 262 | Test for fire and smoke characteristics of wires and cables |
| UL 13 | Standard for power-limited circuit cable |
| UL 44 | Standard for rubber-insulated wires and cables |
| UL 62 | Standard for flexible cord and fixture wire |
| UL 83 | Standard for thermoplastic insulated wires and cables |
| UL 444 | Standard for communications cables |
| UL 758 | Standard for appliance wiring material-component |
| UL 854 | Standard for service-entrance cables |
| UL 910 | Standard for flame propagation and smoke-density values for electrical and optical-fiber cables used in spaces transporting environmental air |
| UL 1063 | Standard for machine tool wires and cables |
| UL 1277 | Standard for electrical power and control tray cables with optional optical fiber members |
| UL 1569 | Standard for metal clad cables |
| UL 1666 | Standard test for flame propagation height of electrical and optical fiber cables installed vertically in shafts |
| UL 1685 | Standard for vertical tray fire propagation and smoke release test for electrical and optical fiber cables |
| UL 1690 | Standard for data processing (DP) cables |
| UL 2556 | Wire and cable test methods |