First of all, chainflex cables are designed to take high tensile stresses as the internal cores are bundled with shorter pitch lengths around the centre core rather than in layers. A gusset-filled, pressure extruded inner and outer jacket, rather than a hose extruded jacket, help eliminate any fraying and unravelling of the cores. Further protection is offered by using a shield with optimised braiding angle around the extruded inner jacket. This provides torsion protection as well as prevents electro-magnetic interference, which normally occur in moving applications when the screen can open up.
The lifetime of chainflex cables for a given application is easy to find out. Using the data from 2 billion test cycles igus performs in its laboratory each year, the free online tool service life calculator offers an accurate prediction of the service life of cables.
