We need to seal a coaxial instrument cable in a feedthrough for an autoclave study. Can you do this?
We can seal against the outer jacket of any instrument cables except wide, flat cables in our custom fittings. The reason that we state the seal is on the outer jacket is that coaxial and multi wire cables can leak inside the wire bundle and through the multi wire shielding strands. Some end connectors between the wire and the sensor plug are hermetic and will seal the wire end. If these are not hermetic, we can open the wire bundle at either the connector end or the point where the wire goes through the feedthrough and inject sealing polymers to close off these leak paths. This usually work for all but the highest vacuum applications where glass frit or potted seals must be employed.
December 18, 2009 at 3:26 pm | Uncategorized | No comment