UL 3122 Silicone Rubber Wire for Riyadh and Saudi Arabia — 200°C 300V AWM

UL 3122 Silicone Rubber Wire for Riyadh and Saudi Arabia

This is the regional procurement page for UL AWM Style 3122 wire for buyers in Riyadh and elsewhere in Saudi Arabia. It is written for equipment OEM buyers, sourcing teams, maintenance departments and distributors whose drawing, BOM or equipment specification calls for Style 3122.

The Style record describes Style 3122 as a single conductor with extruded insulation, rated 200°C and 300 Vac, with a Horizontal Flame designation. The insulation is extruded SR with defined minimum wall requirements, the covering is a lacquered braid, the conductor range is 26 AWG–16 AWG in solid or stranded form, and the official Use is “Internal Wiring.”

That is the whole of what the Style fixes. Everything else — conductor material, colour, dimensions, marking detail, packaging — belongs to the ordered construction and is confirmed against the customer’s drawing, BOM, equipment specification and required marking. This page is written to help a Saudi buyer prepare that enquiry accurately.

Confirmed UL Style 3122 Construction and Ratings

Nine points to clarify about the table above:

1. The conductor range is 26 AWG–16 AWG. Sizes finer than 26 AWG and heavier than 16 AWG are outside this Style.
2. Both conductor forms are available across the range; the Style applies no size-dependent form restriction.
3. 15 mil minimum average and 13 mil minimum at any point are two independent requirements. They are not a range and not nominal values.
4. The covering is described in the record as a lacquered braid. No braid material is stated in the Style record, so none is stated here.
5. The flame designation is Horizontal Flame. No VW-1 or other vertical flame designation appears in the record.
6. The voltage rating is 300 Vac. The record gives no DC rating.
7. The Use is “Internal Wiring”, with no equipment category attached to it in the record.
8. Conductor material, plating, strand count, strand diameter and lay length are not defined by the Style.
9. Finished OD, OD tolerance, conductor resistance, bend radius and ampacity are not defined by the Style.

What “Lacquered Braid” Does and Does Not Say

The covering entry in the Style record is short: lacquered braid. Two things follow from that brevity.

First, the record does not name the braid material. A construction may well use a particular braid yarn, but that belongs to the qualified construction and the supplier’s own datasheet, not to the Style. Describing Style 3122 generally as a fiberglass-braided wire states a material the Style record does not contain, and this page therefore describes the product as SR insulated wire with a lacquered braid covering.

Second, the record assigns the braid no function. It does not state that the braid provides mechanical protection, abrasion resistance, improved temperature performance, dielectric benefit or handling advantage, so none of those is claimed here. Where a buyer’s design depends on a specific braid material or a defined property of the covering, that requirement goes into the drawing and is reviewed against the proposed construction.

200°C and 300 Vac

The temperature rating is 200°C, stated without a duty or service-duration qualifier. This page does not describe it as continuous or continuous-duty, and derives no service life, thermal cycling count or thermal margin from it.

The voltage rating is 300 Vac. The record gives no DC rating, so this page does not state that Style 3122 covers 24 V DC circuits, and it does not conclude that a low circuit voltage makes the wire appropriate for a control, signal, instrumentation or measurement function. A voltage rating describes the wire, not the circuit it serves.

The flame designation is Horizontal Flame, and no VW-1, FT1, vertical flame, self-extinguishing or fire-resistant description is applied. This page also makes no comparative claim about how other insulation materials behave at any temperature.

Insulation: 15 mil Minimum Average and 13 mil Minimum at Any Point

The insulation is extruded SR, and the wall must satisfy two conditions together: an average thickness of at least 15 mils, and a thickness of at least 13 mils at every point around the conductor. These are floor values, not a nominal or exact wall, and the second is not a tolerance on the first.

Minimum wall values do not produce a finished outer diameter. Actual OD depends on the conductor material and form, the actual conductor diameter, the SR extrusion, the braid construction and manufacturing tolerance. Adding a generic AWG conductor diameter to the minimum wall does not give a valid product dimension. Where terminal entry, grommet fit or routing clearance is controlled, state a maximum finished OD and OD tolerance in the RFQ so the proposed construction can be checked against it.

Conductor Range and Conductor Form

The Style covers 26 AWG through 16 AWG, solid or stranded. Listings that show a wider span, for example starting at 30 AWG or extending to 10 AWG, describe sizes the Style does not cover, and an enquiry built on such a listing will not match a qualified Style 3122 construction.

Within the range, conductor size carries no circuit function and no current capacity. The Style designates no size as signal, control or power wire, gives no ampacity, and none is inferred here from conductor size, the 200°C rating or the 300 Vac rating. Conductor material and finish are likewise absent from the record: copper, tinned copper, bare copper, nickel-plated copper and silver-plated copper are constructions a buyer may specify rather than properties this page can assert, and strand count, strand diameter, lay construction, stranding classes and flexibility grades are RFQ fields.

Style scope is also not inventory. Not every size, colour or construction is regularly produced or held, and availability is confirmed per enquiry.

Official Use: Internal Wiring

The official Use is “Internal Wiring.” The record attaches no equipment category to it, so this page does not narrow it to appliances, nor widen it into building or field wiring, branch-circuit or facility wiring, tray or conduit wiring, external equipment wiring, portable cord or instrumentation cable runs between enclosures.

Buyer contexts may include internal wiring inside enclosed equipment where the ambient conditions at the routing position call for a 200°C rated construction. Those are the buyer’s own equipment contexts rather than UL-approved uses, and the official Use remains “Internal Wiring.” Compliance of a finished appliance, panel or machine is established at the equipment level and is not conferred by the Style designation of one internal wire.

Current-carrying capacity is not fixed by this page either. It is evaluated through the buyer’s equipment design and the applicable approval process, and a stated circuit requirement can be passed to engineering review rather than converted into an ampere figure here.

Style Selection Comes from the Drawing

Where a drawing specifies Style 3122, that is the Style quoted. Another silicone AWM Style is not substituted because its temperature rating looks similar or its voltage rating looks more generous, and this page assigns no division of labour between Styles by circuit type. Each AWM Style carries its own construction requirements, conductor range and Use statement, and those differences are not reducible to a single parameter.

If a buyer is unsure whether Style 3122 is the correct requirement, the resolution is the equipment drawing, the BOM or the engineering specification, not a substitution rule published by a supplier.

How to Specify UL 3122 for a Saudi Arabia RFQ

A Style designation is a construction requirement, not a complete purchase specification. A complete Style 3122 enquiry adds the parameters the Style leaves open: the AWG within 26 AWG–16 AWG, solid or stranded, conductor material and plating where the drawing controls them, insulation colour, required marking, maximum OD or OD tolerance where controlled, the internal wiring location, documentation requirements, quantity, packaging preference, the Saudi destination and the requested Incoterm.

Riyadh and Saudi Arabia Procurement Context

Riyadh and Saudi Arabia are the procurement and destination context for this page. Buyers in Saudi Arabia may search for Style 3122 when a drawing or BOM requires a 200°C, 300 Vac AWM internal wiring construction, whether for an equipment build, an export programme or a maintenance replacement. Riyadh, Jeddah, Dammam or another Saudi city or port can be quoted as the destination.

CableApex coordinates international sales, RFQ communication, export documentation review and order confirmation for qualified AWM wire supply. No Saudi industry demand, usage practice or named facility is claimed here, and no conclusion is drawn about Saudi import registration or conformity requirements: where such requirements apply, the buyer should state them so the applicable documents can be reviewed for the ordered construction. Incoterm, packaging, colour and quantity are handled per enquiry rather than published as fixed terms.

What Style 3122 Does and Does Not Define

Style 3122 defines:

• 200°C temperature rating and 300 Vac voltage rating
• Horizontal Flame
• a single conductor construction with extruded insulation
• conductor range 26 AWG–16 AWG, solid or stranded
• extruded SR insulation, 15 mil minimum average / 13 mil minimum at any point
• a lacquered braid covering
• Marking: General
• Use: Internal Wiring.

Style 3122 does not universally define:

• conductor material, plating, strand count, strand diameter or lay length
• the braid material or any function for the covering
• finished OD, OD tolerance, bend radius, flex cycles or flex class
• conductor resistance, ampacity, current rating or metric cross-section
• a DC voltage rating
• VW-1 or any vertical flame performance
• control, signal, instrumentation or power circuit suitability
• oven, heater, panel or other equipment-specific suitability
• equivalence with or substitution for another silicone AWM Style
• colour, reel length, MOQ, stock, lead time, production capacity or shipping term

Common Procurement Errors

• Publishing the range as 30 AWG–10 AWG, or otherwise extending it beyond 26 AWG–16 AWG.
• Adding VW-1 to the flame designation.
• Writing “200°C continuous”.
• Stating a braid material the Style record does not contain.
• Attributing mechanical protection or abrasion resistance to the covering.
• Assuming the conductor is tinned copper, or that all Style 3122 is stranded.
• Omitting the 13 mil minimum-at-any-point requirement.
• Deriving a finished OD from the minimum wall values.
• Stating a DC rating, or treating 300 Vac as covering every control voltage level.
• Deriving ampacity from conductor size or the ratings.
• Dividing silicone Styles into control wire and power wire by voltage rating.
• Substituting another Style because its ratings appear compatible.
• Presenting oven, heater or instrumentation wiring as an approved use.
• Assuming a fixed document set applies to every Saudi shipment.

RFQ Information to Confirm

Style and ratings

• UL AWM Style 3122 requirement
• 200°C temperature rating requirement
• 300 Vac voltage rating requirement
• AWG within 26 AWG–16 AWG
• Solid or stranded construction

Conductor

• Conductor material and plating requirement, if controlled by the drawing
• Strand construction, if controlled
• Maximum conductor resistance, if controlled

Dimensions and identification

• Insulation colour
• Required marking
• Maximum OD and OD tolerance, if controlled

Application references

• Internal wiring location
• The circuit requirement for engineering review, rather than a self-derived ampacity
• Drawing, BOM or equipment specification

Commercial

• Quantity and packaging preference
• Saudi Arabia destination and requested Incoterm
• Requested UL marking and compliance documents, including any RoHS / REACH documentation requirement

UL Marking and Documentation

CableApex is an international sales and export company and does not hold a UL File for Style 3122. Supplied wire is UL-recognized component wire where supplied under a qualified manufacturing scope, with UL marking according to the confirmed ordered construction. The Style record lists Marking as General.

Applicable RoHS / REACH documentation can be confirmed according to the ordered construction. CSA, FT1, VW-1, CE and dual UL/CSA designations are not claimed here, and no conclusion is drawn about Saudi conformity or registration requirements.

Commercial, origin, compliance and transport documents are identified during quotation and confirmed according to the order. They are not supplied as a fixed package with every shipment.

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