Insulated Vs Non Insulated Wire

Hey all i may be overthinking this one but one of our interns asked about the application of bare ground wire vs insulated ground wire and i can t stop second guessing my answer.

Insulated vs non insulated wire.

In practice insulated wire will be shorter than uninsulated wire for the same frequency of resonance. So if you use insulated wire you have the visual aspects of the insulation to deal with. It is insulation between the core iron and the coil itself. I noticed someone used 0808 copper wire that is not insulated for a project but i only have insulated and the parts list does not make a distinction of.

Ring terminals are often used in the automotive industry and are ideal for connecting mechanical relays or contactors to engines or other automotive circuits. Insulated non insulated ring terminals connect two or more wires to a single connection point such as a circuit protection device. My gut response was that bare copper wire allows the user to connect to earth or other grid materials thinking. Bare ground is tied to the mounting screw in the 1900 box.

Uninsulated wire is also stealthy. It will quickly tarnish and turn a dull brown which will become practically invisible at any distance. Probably 5 or less. At arcor we are happy to offer a variety of different types of non insulated wire.

One of the most confusing parts is the wide variety in insulation types. There are non insulated terminals vinyl insulated terminals nylon insulated terminals and heat shrink insulated terminals. Uninsulated wiring is different from insulated wire in that it is not plated or coated with anything. Wire ferrules when to use how to crimp insulated vs non insulated and ul 508a guidelines a ferrule is a thin tin coated copper cylinder that is placed over the stripped end of a wire to help prevent strands of wire from not being properly inserted into an electrical terminal.

Using romex where i can with obvious non insulated ground and emt on basement walls. Insulated wire has a different velocity factor than uninsulated wire. Where romex meets the emt it s stripped back at the connector leaving the two conductors plus the bare ground to runing through the emt to the first 1900 box. Determining which terminal is best for your particular application is often a difficult task.

Various alloys and options. But would it make a difference in this case if the wire was bare or insulated.