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10 joncs câblés

English translation: 10 plaited strands

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French term or phrase:10 joncs câblés
English translation:10 plaited strands
Entered by: Mark Nathan

21:07 Dec 1, 2006
French to English translations [PRO]
Tech/Engineering - Electronics / Elect Eng / fibre optics
French term or phrase: 10 joncs câblés
Le câble est du type à structure lâche (loose tube). Les fibres sont logées dans un tube en polyéthylène rempli d'une graisse d'étanchéité. Ce tube de ± 3 mm extérieur forme l'élément central du câble appelé module. Ce module est complètement entouré d'une couche de protection mécanique de 10 joncs câblés du type FRP (Fiber Reinforced Plastic) en fibres de verre époxy.
Mark Nathan
France
Local time: 12:07
10 plaited strands
Explanation:
câblé --> plaited (as in a young lady's hair), not cabled
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Jennifer Levey
Chile
Local time: 06:07
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Thanks everyone
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5 +310 plaited strands
Jennifer Levey
4cabled rods
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10 plaited strands


Explanation:
câblé --> plaited (as in a young lady's hair), not cabled

Jennifer Levey
Chile
Local time: 06:07
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cabled rods


Explanation:
My Lexique des fibres optiques (Franterm, diffusé par Nathan!) gives "jonc" as "rod", and an illustration shows a "jonc plastique / Plastic rod) with ten longitudinal grooves housing the conductors "fibre avec revêtement primaire / primary coated fibre". At the centre of this structure (in a coaxial void at the centre of the plastic rod) is the "porteur central /central carrier" which might well be your "élément central".

If yours is a big cable, it could well have ten such rods, each comprising ten (say) fibres, the ring of ten rods constituting the mechanical protection of the central element.

My book shows a "7 rod cable", though in this case there are six rods arranged in a circle, with a seventh identical rod at the centre (each rod with 10 grooves and fibres and a central "porteur central").

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