Hand-formable coax cables can be used for semi-rigid or conformable cable types

Insulated Wire Inc. offers Re-Flex, its premier brand of flexible coaxial cables, designed to deliver improved electrical and mechanical performance over conventional hand-formable designs.

The flexible coaxial cables are an excellent choice for projects demanding high durability, versatility, and exceptional performance in challenging conditions. The range offers the perfect coaxial cable solution tailored to customer-specific requirements, ensuring optimal results for most applications.

The Re-Flex series is available in diameters of RF085, RF141, RF250, and RF325, each benefiting from a unique lamination process and robust double shield construction. These cables provide a solder-free tin/alloy plated outer braid, ensuring resilience against micro-fractures through repeated flexing, therefore, eradicating common manufacturability issues found in similar RG cables.

The cables support a vast array of connector types and styles, such as SMA, TNC, N, SMP, SMPM, and more, supplying exceptional performance up to 60GHz. Specifically, the RF250 series is created for high-power applications, delivering compatibility with a wide selection of connectors to meet diverse project requirements.

The assemblies are designed to seamlessly replace semi-rigid or conformable cable types, featuring an FEP jacket as a standard option to improve versatility across applications. For ease of selection, cable part numbers include TPRFEP085, TPRFEP141, and TPRFEP250, catering to a wide spectrum of design needs.

The company provides Re-Flex Starter Kits with options of CT-1879, CT-1880, and CT-1881, each supplying a range of assembly lengths to facilitate prototype system builds. These kits underscore the adaptability and user-friendly nature of Re-Flex, facilitating efficient signal path and layout changes without the drawbacks of traditional coaxial solutions. The ability to continually re-form without the necessity for custom tooling to shape the cable, and the elimination of debris caused by micro fracturing, is a key feature of the cable design, and allows the designer to make signal path/layout changes without having to discard the product after using it once.

As well as internally ruggedised cables, the company has a wide range of materials and processes to protect its cable assemblies. These include a variety of metallic and non-metallic external sheaths to meet customers’ requirements.