Thu Jul 07 16:46:09 CST 2022
How to quickly judge the quality of cables?
Cables are related to the health of users, the safety of property and the use of devices. They are widely used. If fake and shoddy cables are used, it may cause short circuit, electric shock, and even fire. So poor USB cable is very bad for mobile device in charging and data transfer.
1) Check the surface.
The plastic sheath of regular cables is soft and smooth, with uniform color. On its surface, several items on the product certificate should also be printed, such as: 3C certification mark, certification number, model, rated voltage, executive standard, factory name, etc. At the same time, the handwriting must be clear and not easy to erase.
2) Bending test
A cable can be bent repeatedly by hand. Those with soft hand feel, good fatigue resistance, large elasticity of plastic or rubber hand feel and no cracks on the cable insulator are excellent products. The insulation layer of low-quality cables seems to be very thick. In fact, most of them are made of recycled plastic. As long as you squeeze it a little hard, the extruded part will turn white, and there will be wire breakage after bending it for 4 ~ 6 times;
3) Tear the insulation
High quality insulating materials have certain mechanical strength and flexibility, which are easy to tear. And a piece of inferior cable can be torn or pinched off by hand;
4) Burning test
According to the standard, the insulation layer of the cable has certain flame retardancy. Peel off a section of insulation and ignite it. It is inferior wire that can continue to ignite.
5) Check the thickness.
Cut off a section of insulation layer to see whether there are pores on the section and whether the thickness is consistent. Air holes indicate that the insulating material used is unqualified. Where the thickness is thin, it is easy to leak electricity, and pores will also affect the withstand voltage strength.
6) Check the copper wire.
The color of high-quality copper wire is bright and reddish, while the poor copper core wire is purple, black, yellow or white, with high hardness, many impurities, poor mechanical strength and toughness. It will break when applied with a little force, and there are often wire breaks in the cable.
According to the above simple verification methods, we can basically identify whether it is a good or bad cable. If you need specific data, please use the instrument to detect the length, diameter, thickness, resistance, withstand voltage and strength of the cable.
By HornmicLink_Henry