Difference between revisions of "3-Core"

Latest revision as of 09:50, 8 April 2019

Key Stage 4

Meaning

A picture of a 3-Core cable.

3-core is an electrical cable containing 3 separate wires.

About 3-Core

3-Core contains a live wire, a neutral wire and an Earth wire.

3-Core is referred to as double insulted wire because each individual wire is covered in a layer of plastic insulator and the three wires together are covered in another layer of plastic.


The three wires in 3-core are covered in different colour insulators to identify the wires.

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 ===About 3-Core===
 : '''3-Core''' contains a [[Live Wire|live wire]], a [[Neutral Wire|neutral wire]] and an [[Earth Wire|Earth wire]].
-: '''3-Core''' is referred to as [[Double Insulated|double insulted]] [[wire]] because each individual [[wire]] is covered in a layer of [[Plastic (Material)|plastic]] [[Electrical Insulator|insulator]] and  the three [[wire]]s together are covered in another layer of [[Plastic (Material)|plastic]].
+: '''3-Core''' is referred to as double insulted [[wire]] because each individual [[wire]] is covered in a layer of [[Plastic (Material)|plastic]] [[Electrical Insulator|insulator]] and  the three [[wire]]s together are covered in another layer of [[Plastic (Material)|plastic]].
+{| class="wikitable"
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+|[[File:3CoreLabelled.png|center|400px]]
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+| style="height:20px; width:200px; text-align:center;" |The three [[wire]]s in '''3-core''' are covered in different colour [[Electrical Insulator|insulators]] to identify the [[wire]]s.
+|}