Blackburn FBE1H035A1-15 XFLEX BRAID 9/16H 3/16X1.5 X 15 IN

15 inches overall. If your two terminations are further apart than that, or you need extra slack for movement, this one won't reach - the length is fixed, and the braid is not intended to be cut and re-terminated because the pad terminals are factory formed.

The terminal pad has a 9/16 inch hole, which takes a 1/2 inch bolt or stud with clearance. It's a single-hole pad on each end, so the connection relies on one fastener per termination - torque it to the equipment manufacturer's value and use a flat washer to spread the load across the pad.

It's a flat, extra-flexible tin-plated copper braid connector with a single bolt hole, used to make a current-carrying connection between two points that need to move, vibrate, or expand relative to each other. Typical use is bridging switchgear, disconnects, bus bars, and grounding connections where a rigid bar or solid conductor would fatigue and crack. The braid construction absorbs that movement while carrying the current.

One hole is standard for most switchgear and disconnect terminal pads, and that is what this braid provides. Go to a two-hole pad when the equipment pad is drilled for two fasteners (common on larger NEMA bus drillings), when the spec calls for two-hole for anti-rotation, or where vibration could loosen a single bolt. A one-hole pad can rotate around its fastener, so if the braid will be flexing hard in service, two-hole is the better mechanical choice.

The braid section measures 3/16 by 1.5 inches in cross-section with a 9/16 inch terminal hole, over a 15 inch length. It's a flat profile, not round, so it lays tight against a bus bar face and flexes in one plane rather than twisting.

Country of origin is the United States, which is the answer procurement needs on federal, state, and utility work with domestic-content requirements. The part number to put on the requisition is FBE1H035A1-15.

Not where the connection has to move. A stranded cable jumper bends, but it resists repeated flexing and work-hardens at the lug barrel. An extra-flexible flat braid like this is built for continuous or repeated motion - switch blade travel, thermal expansion in a bus run, equipment vibration - and its flat section gives more surface area in the same space. For a fixed, non-moving tap, a standard cable or a rigid bar is fine and usually simpler to install.

The braid is tin-plated copper. The tin slows oxidation on the strand surfaces and at the bolted pad, which matters on a braid because it has far more exposed surface area than a solid bar. It also makes the connector safe to bolt to aluminum bus without the galvanic problem you get from bare copper on aluminum.

Sold each. One braid per unit, so if you are jumping three phases you order three.