on this glorious day we're back our EV installations and today we're going to
look at EV ultra cable from Doncaster Cable to see if it can simplify your EV installation
so if you've been following this series from the start you'll know we fitted lots of innovative
new products that have been specially designed to help installation of EV charges our first port of
call for those products is Replenishh a specialist distributor of the latest kit for EV chargers and
they've got everything test equipment to cables and cables is the subject of today's video Gary
what have we got here this cable allows us to have mains power and data cable all in one and
that's really important yeah but why would i want to get data out to an EV charger Gary
it could be that you need to monitor the power within the installation which means you need to
connect to a current transformer that needs to get a signal out to here okay but this one here
has got looks like a cat5 Gary we'll go do it possibly need to connect to the internet yeah
we know that these chargers now are smart and the benefits of using smart which we've
looked at in a previous video presentation in order to get that out that connectivity
in this case we've got a cat5e cable within the actual construction of the ev ultra okay and
all charges are different so some have wireless connectivity some can support multiple current
transformers and we think all these options are covered with this ev ultra cable so should we have
a closer look at how the cables made up we're starting with the armored version well you're
in first i would have been in with a hacksaw is that a new tool you've got there you have this for
years it does a reasonable job actually on small cables well it must be my turn now because i'm
out with the knife what's beautiful about this is the cable uses a standard steel wire armour
gland so no specialist glands required for this cable yeah that's it so let's just remove the
armouring and have a look under the inner bedding material and then we can see our cat5 data cable
and we've also got our conductors in those phase colours so we've got blue neutral brown is our
line and green yellow as our CPC or earth yeah so no need to over sleeve and then let's just have
a closer look at the data cable so as you would expect the data cable it's got the some shielding
and then there's our four pairs of data cables there and what we've got here is we've got the
six mil with the cat5e and it's the armoured version they do other versions like that yes
they do so here's a version which is the tough sheath with a single pair single twisted pair
data for say current transformer in six mil so it also comes in four millimeter squared
and six millimeter squared in all variants okay with the two core and the cat5e in it so that's
good and we'll see that in a minute when we look at the data sheets but what's really nice about
cables from Doncaster is they put their name on the side of it and they're proud to do so
and that's manufactured in the uk as well so let's just have a quick closer look at the variants so
there's our single twisted pair variants in four and six millimeter armoured and non-armoured and
the same for the cat5e version non-armoured and armoured with four and six millimeter conductors
well Gary of jinx this video you start with glorious weather and the time it's taking us to
look at the cable we've got dark clouds behind us so before we get rained on what's the advantages
of using this cable well often the cables are run on the exterior of the building to ev charging
points like it was in this installation and it means we're only running one cable you don't want
two or three extra cables run on the outside of a building and we use these clips here from d-line
these safe-d clips also make it look almost an invisible fixing so you're trying to limit
that for both the customer and making the install easier for the electrician yeah nobody wants the
house to look like a factory at the front does it as much as we get proud about how neat we can run
cables one cable is a significant advantage and especially when it comes to the charger as well
because obviously quite an expensive piece of electronics here we're worried about IP rating
and with this cable you only need to make one cable entry which is only one point that you need
to maintain the ip rating of and again a neater install so we've got two versions there of our EV
ultra cable we've got the one with the cat5e and a single twisted pair when would we use one over
another okay so single twisted pairs when you're going to connect one current transformer to the ev
charger itself and then when it comes to the cat5e two options obviously everyone's thinking internet
connectivity with the ethernet connection but a lot of charges has to have a wireless connection
to a hub so you don't need that but this charger here from myenergi has can support up to three
current transformers and we can use three of the pairs in theirs to wire to those current
transformers so that's why you'd use that um but then we're probably thinking what else could we
use this cable for Gary what are you thinking perhaps i don't know garden office summer house
at the end of that garden and you've got the power supply out there and the wi-fi is a little bit
average you're thinking hard-wired internet connectivity and this cable is going to provide
it for you yeah i've heard a lot of people are working from home these days actually so yeah
yeah you're right a hard-wired connection better internet connection all round i'm also thinking
some of the more smart light fittings out there sometimes need a data connection for the lighting
control system that's another great application we've saved it right to the end i'm sure people
have already commented before they finished the video how can we have the cat5e which is band one
next to installed within the same construction of the cable next to the mains which is
band two Gordon yeah well to answer that we made a separate video that looks at how the regulations
treat that scenario so check out that if you haven't seen some great learning in there also
check out the video where we show how this cable is manufactured from raw copper and plastic and
we trace the whole manufacturing process across at Doncaster Cables are you using this cable from
Doncaster Cables the ev ultra is there something you want to tell us about the cable that we didn't
mention in the video leave those comments below is it a cable now that you didn't know that was
out there that you're going to use in the future please leave those comments and we'll try and get
back to as many as we can and now it looks like it's about to rain Gary and i am off we're off