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  • #2
    Bruthal
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,422 ✭✭✭✭Bruthal


    What do they mean by not enough copper? CSA smaller than stated to reduce the manufacturer cost maybe?


  • #3
    slavetothegrind
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,789 ✭✭✭slavetothegrind


    exactly robbie, there was a program on bbc last week which had a feature on the amount of counterfiet cable in the uk which was way under it's alleged current carrying capacity.
    a frightening amount of the stuff out there!

    copper is getting so expensive now that there is obviously a huge market for this cheap and dangerous crap.

    fake britain it was!

    i am guessing this stuff is very much black market supply rather than dodgy wholesalers?


  • #4
    M cebee
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,431 ✭✭✭M cebee


    no not black market

    this stuff was mainstream

    the company had a basec license


  • #5
    Energysavers.ie
    Closed Accounts Posts: 19 ✭Energysavers.ie


    Everyone in the business has long had their suspicions about these cheap cables. Great to see finally something being done about it, but how many apartment blocks in Ireland are already wired in the stuff?
    There are two basic ingredients in the manufacture of cables labour & copper , and copper costs are based on the LME common to all manufacturers.
    As a supplier you can try make savings on one but never both.


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