Quote Originally Posted by daniel82 View Post
Can any one of the brilliant folk who haunt this site explain the segmented insulation/copper wrap? Increased flexibility? Nodal transmission? Shoddy worksmanship?

Frank S., surely you've encountered this in your extraordinarily diverse worklife!
desbromilow is correct. that cable would be considered a non-bury cable in Kuwait used only to carry power from one switchgear to another inside or from floor to floor of buildings, the Armored cable he described with the galvanized steel wires either wound or braided around the bundle of conductors is also incorporated as a secondary earth conductor