difference between cable and conductor?

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difference between cable and conductor?..

Answer / dinesh anant

All cables are conductors but all conductors are not cables. Cables use conductors to build them as to pass current but conductors are themselves materials those pass current through them.

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difference between cable and conductor?..

Answer / kapil bahadure (kapil narayanr

Cable:-The many conductor seperatory coverded by insulating
material.& done by armoring,bending,shithing etc.one by one
layer.The cable use for large current carring capacity.
Conductor:-It is the current carryng material.The conductor
use for carry current.
types of conductor:-1)coper2)alluminium3)silver4)gold etc.

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difference between cable and conductor?..

Answer / nelson

A cable is a sheated, insulated conducting material while a conductor is a material that allows the flow of electric current. To me the main difference is the INSULATION.

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difference between cable and conductor?..

Answer / m. s. quamar

In my opinion cable is a covered conductor by insulation
Nothing more.

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difference between cable and conductor?..

Answer / patel

cable is a used for many coductor with insulation it is
separately to many conductor.But conducter is a pass
current it has no any kinds of intruption to current

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difference between cable and conductor?..

Answer / jesudoss.d

cable normally is a conducting medium. when they carry and
coduct I or V or IV thats called his charactor is a
coductor. so cable is like material only.coduction is a
funtion. same like copper or aluminium and any other
coducting medium. insulation is depends upon the rating and
insultion proof requirments.

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