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Bridgeport, CT - Delivering another technological breakthrough for the lighting and electrical industries, Q-Tran, Inc. unveils Q-Wire, a series of flexible, watertight cables that can be used for direct burial applications to power low voltage landscape lighting. Q-Wire joins Q-Set transformer cassettes and Q-Vault housing as the latest introductions in the all-new Q-Scape family, the first direct power supply system designed and engineered for landscape lighting. Q-Tran, the industry leader of high-performance power supply systems and transformers, has also designed Q-Wire for pool/spa and indoor lighting, as well as a broad range of other applications.

Q-Wire, which was invented in the Research and Development Department at Q-Tran, is a flexible, stranded type of cable that can be used effectively for low voltage indoor and outdoor lighting. Two tinned copper insulated conductors lay parallel within an overall jacket. Easy to install, flexible Q-Wire is UL Listed, watertight, sun resistant and tin coated so it won't oxidize. Its flexible shape guarantees water tightness when used with Q-Tran's Q-Click compression fittings, to prevent water leaks.

Four sizes of Q-Wire are available. 8-AWG: QW-8/2 Stranded UF-B Cable; 10-AWG: 2C Stranded UF-B Cable; 12-AWG: 2C Stranded UF-B Cable; and, 14-AWG: 2C Stranded UF-B Cable.

Q-Wire features a two-color outer jacket -- Brown on one side to blend into the bark of a tree and Dark Gray on the other. Stranded conductors are jacketed inside the UF outer jacket and color coded in Bright Blue and Bright Yellow.

Q-Wire has been approved by UL to meet Code Standard 493. It has been rated for temperatures ranging from -20 to +90 degrees Celsius, and 75 degrees Celsius in Wet locations. The cable can operate up to a RMS maximum of 600 volts.

SOURCE: Q-Tran, Inc.