Armored Cable... Connector or Termination??

[MD88]

Hello,

I'm having a very difficult type finding the difference between a connector and a termination for armored cable. It seems to me for 480V cable, when you run into a box or whatever, the little piece would be a "connector". Whereas at 25kV or some medium voltage, you have the big stress cone and all that stuff - which would be called a termination.

If that's correct, can you get a Medium Voltage regular "connector"? Wouldn't that have all the problems that a "termination" is supposed to fix? And can you get a low voltage "termination"? Seems like overkill...

I'm being asked to prepare prices on:
low voltage connectors (600V)
low voltage terminations (600V)
medium voltage connectors (25kV)
medium voltage terminations (25kV)

and the whole thing is confusing me!

Thanks very much for your help!

 

[don_resqcapt19]

Connectors are the mechanical connection for the cable, terminations are the electrical connection.

 

[MD88]

Ah, now that makes sense...

Can someone comment on whether this makes sense?

Two categories of pricing I was given are:

25kV Cable Connectors
25kV Terminations/Stress Cones

Wouldn't the stress cone be more part of the connector?

 

[don_resqcapt19]

The stress cones are part of the electrical termination.