Most industrial wire is made up of multiple wire strands, called 'base strands', rather than being made of a solid piece of metal. Multiple strands make the wire more flexible, allowing it to bend and flex more easily than solid metal.

The finer the base strand, the more flexible the wire. As shown above, standard 24 AWG wire has 7 base strands, 'flexible' wire has 19 base strands, while Cicoil High-Flex wire has 66 base strands. All Cicoil wire has base stranding of 40 AWG minimum, versus 36 AWG and larger in other 'flexible' wires. Cicoil wire conductors have two to three times more base strands than competitive 'flexible' wire. This makes Cicoil wire extremely flexible, as wires with smaller base stranding will have a much smaller bend radius than wires with larger stranding. In addition, finer stranded wire has significantly longer life in flexing applications, as bending stresses are distributed across many more wires strands, thereby dissipating the strain on the overall wire conductor.

Cicoil flat cables only use High-Flex, finely stranded wires, which are the most flexible wires available. The combination of our high-flex wire and the ultimate flexibility of our silicone rubber insulation make Cicoil flat cables the most flexible flat cable you can buy.

When you need the ultimate in flexibility, you need Cicoil