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Extra Heavy Duty Garden Light Cable – 30m
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Extra heavy duty garden light cable for D.I.Y garden light enthusiasts everywhere.
Length: 30m
Width: 3.3mm
HPM 30m Extra Heavy Duty (3.3mm Core) 12V Garden Light Cable $75 Delivered @ Eeet5p eBay
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its 3.3mm², my apology.
its extra heavy duty.
just uploaded the actual photo.
Is there any different between "garden light" and noraml power cord?
Low voltage or mains you mean? Typical fig8 I see is usually .5-1.5mm
NVM, just do some google search, garden light cable is refering to 2 core insteand of 3 core we usually used for househoud appliance.
Also main cables are normally double insulated.
This is for low voltage (12v or so) lights and has no plugs.
This is not good value at $2.50/m; there are much better options for 12AWG cable.
if this is not a good value, can you please recommend other options for a heavy duty garden cable elsewhere please?
230V mains power in the home is "low voltage". This cable is "extra low voltage".
Is there any different between "garden light" and noraml power cord?
Garden light cable should also be uv stabilized
this is 2.1mm²
I recently installed a 12V backyard lighting with the longest run of 35m and another run of 25m all off the same transformer. About 80W in total.
I went down this path of looking at this HPM cabling, but per/m it was just too much and even at 3mm2 the voltage drop was too much for the LED drivers to handle.
In the end I ended up using DC Photovoltaic Solar Cable @ 6mm2. The cable is rated for DC only, which is fine, and is UV and LSZH (in case it ever wanted to catch on fire)
https://www.ebay.com.au/itm/223723935571?hash=item3416fc5753…
Is 30M @ 4mm2 is ~$53 delivered, about $20 less and for a thicker wire.
Some downsides on working with this wire, its thick, each cable is insulated, and then the pair are further insulated. It was a bit of an effort to get my 6mm2 thought 10m of 25mm conduit. I even had to pull it through 15m of 25mm conduit which already had 9core irrigation cable inside. And it wasn't a straight pull, there was 3 x 90-degree bends. I didn't need to use any pulling compound.
If there is no conduit I personally believe this is superior, but prep’ing the cable, and working with it is harder, but it’s a lot more robust, so once done it should be good for life…well my life anyway.
Thanks for the insights!
This cable go ok just in the ground? Not sure if I’ll conduit everything.
The cable is only in conduit when it passes underneath the lawn, and it’s about 40cm under. It pops out the other end at the hedge and is laid at the same level as the lights (maybe under 5mm of mulch). Another run is underneath a footpath. We laid the conduit before we did the concrete pour, that way we could get irrigation and cables from backyard to front yard without laying cables above ground.
One thing I learnt from all this is pulling cable though conduit is a major PITA. Over long runs the friction is insane. One side pulls while the other side pushes…just to move it an inch. We feed in fishing line with a small piece of cloth at the end using a vacuum cleaner to get a line through, then we attach the cable onto the fishing line so we could push and pull at the same time. The first few meters are easy, but it progressively gets more difficult. Pulling compound would make this easier, but in the end we didn’t need it.
Thanks for letting me know! Ordered two roles.
Yep- I know the pain. I bought a thick 3mm fishing line from a electrical supplier to do it
Wired up cat5 everywhere it was a pain I had to do it run by run then rebuilt the conduit
Luckily it wasn’t underground
So did you end up buying a 6mm cable or a 6mm2? There is a difference in the diameter vs. the cable area. The link in your post is for a 4mm cable. These cable gauges can be confusing.
Great post thanks
So at least 40 years?
mm², not mm wide — big difference!!
And the photo says 2.1 mm².