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How To Choose A Cabe Tray in Electrical Engineering

This document provides a comprehensive guide on choosing the right cable tray, detailing various types such as ladder, perforated, solid bottom, wire mesh, and channel cable trays. It outlines the steps for selecting the proper size, including determining cable diameter, the number of cables, and overall cable size, along with formulas for calculations. An example is provided to illustrate how to calculate the appropriate cable tray size for specific cable configurations.

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How To Choose A Cabe Tray in Electrical Engineering

This document provides a comprehensive guide on choosing the right cable tray, detailing various types such as ladder, perforated, solid bottom, wire mesh, and channel cable trays. It outlines the steps for selecting the proper size, including determining cable diameter, the number of cables, and overall cable size, along with formulas for calculations. An example is provided to illustrate how to calculate the appropriate cable tray size for specific cable configurations.

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How to Choose the Right

Cable Tray? Types &


Sizing Calculation
" A Complete Guide."
Cable Trays?
A cable tray is like a Executive Suite for your cables
– it’s a specially designed tray that keeps all those
electrical wires neat, organized, and off the floor (so
they don’t form a spaghetti monster behind your
walls!). Instead of letting cables tangle up like a bad
hair day, the cable tray gives them their own stylish
pathway, making maintenance and cooling a
breeze.

Type of Cable Trays


Ladder Cable Tray

Perforated Cable Tray

Solid Bottom Cable Tray


.-----------------------------------------.
| Cable tray Expressway |
Wire Mesh Cable Tray |-----------------------------------------|
| [Wire A] --- [Wire B] --- [Wire C] |
| || || || |
Channel Cable Tray | "Smooth rides, no traffic jams!" |
'-----------------------------------------'
Ladder Cable Tray
Wire Mesh Cable Tray
Solid Bottom Cable Tray
Perforated Cable Tray
Channel Cable Tray
Selection of Proper Size of Cable Tray

Steps To Find Out proper size


Determine Cable Diameter
Number of Cables on the Tray
Size and Over all Diameter of
Each Cable

1 Determine Cable Diameter


Formulas
Area of Circle - A = π × r2
Diameter of Circle - D=2r

calculation
for example
we can take 3c x 300sqmm cable for finding diameter
calculation 3 core
we can take 3c x 300sqmm cable Area is 300

Area of Circle - A = π × r2 Diameter of Circle - D=2r


A = π × r2 D=2x9.77
A
r2= -------
π D=19.549mm
r=√ A
------
π D=19.549x3
r=√300
------ = 9.77 mm D=58.64mm
3.14
Area of Circle - r=9.77mm Diameter of Circle - D=58.64mm

therefore diameter of this cable is 58.45 mm

2 Number of Cables on the Tray


Multicore Cable SingleCore Cable
3 Size and Over all Diameter of Each Cable
Multicore Cable SingleCore Cable
Space factor Space factor
+20% +20%

D D D D D D D D

D/2 D D D D/2 D/2 2D 2D 2D D/2

D = Diameter of Cable D = Diameter of Cable


notes notes
D/2 -Tray end to cable end D/2 -Tray end to cable end
D -Cable diameter D -Cable diameter
D -Cable end to end distance(cable diameter) 2D -Cable end to end distance(cable diameter)
Formula Formula
D/2+D+D+D+D/2+20% D/2+D+2D+D+D/2+20%

1 From this formula you will get the


width of the tray
Width--

2 Height of the cable tray > diameter of


biggest size of cable tray
Height
Example
Find cable tray size which will carry 4c x 300sqmm and 4c x 50sqmm
cable
1 Cable diameter
4c x 300Sqmm = 66mm
4c x 50Sqmm = 33mm
case 1: If we choose 300 mm x 50 mm
cable tray

2 Initial cable tray size w= Formula


w=d/2+d+d+d+d/2+20% Multicore cable formula
w=33+66+66+33+17+20% given cable is 4c - Multicore
w=215+20%
w=258mm w=300mm

3 Height of the cable tray


H = >diameter of biggest cable of size
diameter of 4cx300sqmm size 66mm
H=66mm H=100mm
standard sizes for cable tray
upto 300sqmm width
Therefore we need to use 300mm x 100sqmm cable tray
size

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