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EDA Insight: Get to know cables – low and high voltage, specialist, and fibre optic

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The EDA’s Product Knowledge Modules help businesses like yours create cross-selling and up-selling opportunities by building knowledge and confidence. These training modules have won a Princess Royal Training Award so you can be assured of their value.

Cables and Cable Management is one of the 12 EDA’s Product Knowledge Modules created to develop the professional knowledge and confidence of your team.

Training in Cables and Cable Management includes:

  • Wiring systems
  • Telecommunications cables
  • Optical fibre cables
  • Special cables
  • Substandard and counterfeit cables
  • Cable fire performance
  • Cable management systems
  • Cable termination

Online learning through The EDA Academy

All the EDA Product Knowledge Modules are available to study electronically via The EDA Academy, the Association’s e-learning portal. Each training course is delivered through video and interactive learning, but if the original hard copy textbook is preferred these are still available.

Talk to the EDA team and ask for a demo of the e-learning platform.

Years of knowledge to give your team a commercial edge

City & Guilds accredited, this training programme harnesses decades of combined expertise from product experts at EDA manufacturers and allied trade associations to create an accessible and practical training opportunity for you and your team.

Test your knowledge

Have a go at this quiz sampled from the Cables and Cable Management module. Then check your answers below. If the results show that you need to boost your team’s know-how, talk to the EDA today.

Q1: What is BASEC when referred to on a cable specification?
Q2: What is SWA cable?
Q3: What is total internal reflection?
Q4: Name three applications that special cables can be used for.
Q5: When are fire-resistant cables needed?
Q6: What is a ‘tight jacket’ cable construction?

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Answers:

Q1: British Approvals Service for Cables
Q2: Cable with steel wires spiralled around the cable providing mechanical protection
Q3: The phenomenon that keeps laser light within the confines of an optical fibre
Q4: Industrial control, building management and high-temperature environments
Q5: When there are installations that still need to work at high temperatures or if there is a fire
Q6: The primary coated optical fibre is subjected to an additional secondary coating which is coloured to differentiate them

How did you do?

Full marks: Well done.

3 – 5 out of 6: Not bad. Could the EDA training help you to fill in any gaps in your knowledge and help you progress in your career?

Less than 3: The EDA Product Knowledge Programme could be just what you need to boost sales.

Watch the video and download the Course Directory

There’s plenty of information online at www.eda.org.uk, including videos and a downloadable Course Directory giving you a summary of what’s covered in each of the 12 training modules.

The EDA team is ready to help. Call 020 3141 7350 or email training@eda.org.uk

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