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Product Description

BCC, Soft-Drawn Bare Copper Conductor (ASTM B3/B8)

Applications
Solid and stranded (classes AA and A) bare copper are suitable for overhead transmission and distribution applications.
Stranded conductor of greater flexibility (classes B and C) are suitable for uninsulated hook up, jumpers, and grounds in electrical construction. Soft Drawn copper is unilay construction.

Specifications
B-1 Hard-Drawn Copper Wire.
B-2 Medium-Hard Copper Wire.
B-3 Soft or Annealed Copper Wire.
B-8 Concentric-Lay-Stranded Hard, Medium-Hard or Soft Copper Conductor.
B-33 Tinned Conductors
B-787 19 Wire Combination Unilay-Stranded Soft copper wire.

Construction
Bare copper, solid or stranded. Available in tempers hard, medium-hard, or soft. Stranded conductors are concentrically stranded in hard and medium-hard tempers and are Combination Unilay stranded in the soft-drawn temper.

Size	Section		Number of Wires	Wire Diameter	Total Diameter	Resistance DC @ 20°C	Minimun Elongation in 10 In. Wire before Stranding (254 mm)	Total Weight
AWG / MCM	Cmil	mm²		mm	mm	Ω/ km	%	kg / km
22	640	0.324	7	0.243	0.73	54.2	15	2.97
20	1,020	0.517	7	0.307	0.92	34.0	20	4.69
18	1,620	0.821	7	0.386	1.16	21.4	20	7.46
16	2,580	1.307	7	0.488	1.46	13.5	20	11.87
14	4,110	2.083	7	0.615	1.85	8.44	25	18.87
12	6,530	3.309	7	0.776	2.33	5.31	25	30.00
10	10,380	5.26	7	0.978	2.93	3.34	25	47.72
8	15,510	7.859	7	1.20	3.59	2.24	25	75.86
6	26,240	13.3	7	1.56	4.67	1.32	25	121
4	41,740	21.15	7	1.96	5.88	0.831	25	192
2	66,360	33.62	7	2.47	7.42	0.523	25	305
1	83,690	42.41	19	1.69	8.43	0.415	25	385
1/0	105,600	53.49	19	1.89	9.47	0.329	25	485
2/0	133,100	67.43	19	2.13	10.6	0.261	25	611
3/0	167,800	85.0	19	2.39	11.9	0.207	25	771
4/0	211,600	107.2	19	2.68	13.4	0.164	30	972
250	250,000	127	37	2.09	14.6	0.138	25	1,149
300	300,000	152	37	2.29	16.0	0.116	25	1,379
350	350,000	177	37	2.47	17.3	0.0994	25	1,609
400	400,000	203	37	2.64	18.5	0.0866	30	1,838
500	500,000	253	37	2.95	20.7	0.0695	30	2,298
600	600,000	304	61	2.52	22.7	0.0578	25	2,758
700	700,000	355	61	2.72	24.5	0.0495	30	3,216
750	750,000	380	61	2.82	25.3	0.0463	30	3,447
800	800,000	405	61	2.91	26.2	0.0434	30	3,676
900	900,000	456	61	3.09	27.8	0.0386	30	4,136
1,000	1,000,000	507	61	3.25	29.3	0.0347	30	4,596

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