Hello,
First post but I'm a a new plant electrician for a water treatment plant with a background in mechanical engineering. We are working on a project installing some new turbidity meters that are connected to a PLC via 4-20 signal. I'll need to pull some new wire for them which sent me down a rabbit hole of if there was a quality difference between brands of instrumentation cable. Wire will be shielded twisted pairs. If i run two pair wire, it will be individually shielded. So is there a difference between say belden, southwire, etc or is whatever the local supply house can get going to be as good as anything else?
First post but I'm a a new plant electrician for a water treatment plant with a background in mechanical engineering. We are working on a project installing some new turbidity meters that are connected to a PLC via 4-20 signal. I'll need to pull some new wire for them which sent me down a rabbit hole of if there was a quality difference between brands of instrumentation cable. Wire will be shielded twisted pairs. If i run two pair wire, it will be individually shielded. So is there a difference between say belden, southwire, etc or is whatever the local supply house can get going to be as good as anything else?