How many types of wire and cable conductors are there?

There are not only many types of wire and cable products, but also many types of conductors. The following 7 types are commonly used:

Conductor, wire: An element in a cable that has the specific function of conducting current.

Solid Conductor, Solid Conductor: A conductor made of a single round or shaped wire.

Single Conductor: A conductor of a single wire or multiple metal wires that is not clad with other metal layers.

Metal-coated conductors: Solid conductors coated with thin layers of different metals or alloys.

Tinned Conductor: A conductor that is plated with tin.

Metal-Clad Conductor: A conductor consisting of one metal as an inner element and metallurgically processed (welded) clad with another metal as an outer element.

Concentric stranded round conductor: A stranded conductor in which multiple single wires are helically twisted into one or more concentric layers, usually adjacent layers are twisted in opposite directions.

Bundled conductor and bundled wire: a conductor formed by a spiral bundle of multiple single wires in the same direction and at the same pitch.

Stranded conductor: One or more layers of conductors (cores) formed by helically twisting several strands. Each strand in the conductor (core) can be concentrically stranded or bundled.

Hollow Conductor: A conductor with a central channel.

Split conductors: conductors composed of stranded wires with thin layers of insulation between them.

Flat conductor: A conductor whose cross-sectional shape is nearly flat.

Flexible conductor: Stranded conductor consisting of round wires of sufficiently small diameter, suitable for flexible cables.

Compressed conductor: A stranded conductor that reduces the twisting gap by mechanically compressing or stretching, or by appropriately selecting the shape and configuration of the single wire.

Concentric Conductor: A conductor wrapped around one or more insulated cores.

Copper wire: a conductor made up of one or several layers of thin copper tapes spirally wrapped around the fiber core, and then twisted by one or several elements.

By (outer) conductor: The conductive element of the inner (outer) part of the coaxial pair.