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    Quote Originally Posted by Voicecoil View Post
    On another tack I did a bit of searching whilst nibbling at my spicy turkey bun this lunchtime, and quite a few people do these 3+3E VFD cables, however sadly no-one seems to make them in less than 1.5mm2, and they all seem to have a pretty massive minimum bending radius, typically 20x diameter, which given the large cable OD's (10...13mm for 1.5mm2) is not useful for the typically "small" machines the likes of us are making.
    Plus the manufacturers of small machine spindles like ours would have to bring both ends of the three windings, plus a separate casing earth connection out to a seven pin plug.
    Readers should also beware of some cable sizes quoted in diameter and others in cross-sectional area.

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