Parallel conductors in cable - How to model that?

[drathak]

While not common, we have occasional need to show two conductors in a control cable going between the same two pins.  (Usually for increased current carrying capacity.)

Showing both conductors on the schematic is not desired, but flagging both as being used is.  This may not be possible.

Any thoughts on how to best pull this off?  Stacking two cable markers sort of works visually, but doesn't really take care of the actual wiring.

[Icemanau]

There is a user typed in-line wire label that you can use for this sort of situation.

Not sure on where it is located in the ribbon, but it can be found through the Insert Component menu in Terminals/Connectors->In-line Wire Labels.

Just select the You Type label and then type in the information you need (2 x 4mm SQ for example).

Regards Brad

[drathak]

Not sure I follow how that would help.  Here's what I ended up with.  This is to model a DC Ring bus for a switchboard lineup in a substation.

[Icemanau]

The attached jpg shows how I would do something similar as compared to a dual wire setup.

Note that normally we just go up a wire size or two to get the same or a better rating.

I'm in the substation HV switchboard design field and our boards us a similar setup for the dc control power.

Our wire size is 4mm sq for a smaller boards and goes up to 6mm sq for the larger ones.

J1 is the wire number while the 2 yellow labels are examples to suit the Australian wire sizes and the American wire sizes.

Regards Brad