Bare Stranded Soft-Drawn Copper Conductors (SDC)

Construction:

Bare stranded soft-drawn (annealed) copper conductor is a concentric-lay-stranded conductor consisting of annealed copper wires available in both single layer and multi-layer constructions.
The primary advantage of the ACAR conductor lies in the fact that all strands are interchangeable between EC and 6201, thereby permitting the design of a conductor with an optimum balance between mechanical and electrical characteristics. In effect, ACAR is a composite aluminium-aluminium alloy conductor which is designed for each application to optimize properties. Inverse ACAR conductors are also available with the harder 6201 aluminium alloy wires being on the outer surface of the conductor and the 1350 aluminium making up the heart of the conductor.